© Meira Chand 1979

First published in 1979 by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd

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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Name(s): Chand, Meira.

Title: The gossamer fly / Meira Chand.

Description: First edition. | Singapore : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd, [2018] | Original publisher : John Murray (Publishers), 1979.

Identifier(s): OCN 1039422194 | eISBN 978 981 4828 62 8

Subject(s): LCSH: Japan--Social life and custom--Fiction. | Japan--Fiction.

Classification: DDC S823.914--dc23

Printed in Singapore

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