Published in 2017 by the Feminist Press
at the City University of New York
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406
New York, NY 10016
First Feminist Press edition 2017
Copyright © 2009 by Romina Paula
Translation copyright © 2017 by Jennifer Croft
Originally published in Spanish as Agosto by Editorial Entropía in 2009.
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This book was made possible thanks to a grant from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This book is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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First printing April 2017
Cover and text design by Suki Boynton
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Paula, Romina, 1979- author. | Croft, Jennifer (Translator), translator.
Title: August / Romina Paula; translated by Jennifer Croft.
Other titles: Augusto. English
Description: New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016046248 (print) | LCCN 2017005001 (ebook) | ISBN 9781558614277 (ebook all)
Subjects: LCSH: Voyages and travels--Fiction. | Female friendship--Fiction. BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.
Classification: LCC PQ7798.426.A89 A913 2017 (print) | LCC PQ7798.426. A89 (ebook) | DDC 863/.7--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016046248