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© 2016 by Giacomo Sartori
Published by arrangement with The Italian Literary Agency
Translation copyright © 2019 Frederika Randall
First published as Sono Dio by NN Editore, Milan
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First Restless Books paperback edition March 2019
A slightly different version of chapters 1 to 3 appeared in the Massachusetts Review, vol 58, no 4.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062147
eISBN: 9781632061843
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018948327
Cover design by Adam B. Bohannon
Cover illustration by Eugenia Loli
Typesetting, text design and eBook by Tetragon, London
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