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Copyright © 1974, 1976 by Leonora Carrington

Afterword copyright © 2020 by Olga Tokarczuk

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Originally published in French translation as Le Cornet acoustique.

Cover image: Leonora Carrington, Play Shadow, 1977; private collection; © 2020 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photograph © Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carrington, Leonora, 1917–2011, author. | Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962– writer of afterword.

Title: The hearing trumpet / by Leonora Carrington ; [afterword by Olga Tokarczuk].

Description: New York: New York Review Books, [2020] | Series: New York Review Books classics

Identifiers: LCCN 2020005721 | ISBN 9781681374642 (paperback) | ISBN 9781681374659 (ebook)

Subjects: GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6053.A6965 H4 2020 | DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020005721

ISBN 978-1-68137-465-9

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