Demi-Gods

First published in 2017 in Hamish Hamilton hardcover by Penguin Canada, Toronto

First published in Great Britain 2017

This electronic edition published in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Nazim Hikmet, excerpt from ‘Loving You’ from Poems of Nazim Hikmet, Revised and Expanded Edition. Translation copyright © 1994, 2002, Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk. Reprinted with the permission of the publishers, Persea Books, Inc (New York), www.perseabooks.com. All rights reserved.

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