© Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2011
English translation copyright © 2013 by David Scott Hamilton

Published in Paris by Éditions Gallimard under the title Kolia
A first edition of this novel was published in 2010 by Éditions
Le Quartanier in Montreal, Canada, under the title L’homme blanc.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Leblanc, Perrine, 1980–
[Homme blanc. English]

Kolia / Perrine Leblanc; translated by David Scott Hamilton.

Translation of: L’homme blanc.
Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77089-219-4 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-77089-220-0 (html)

I. Hamilton, David Scott, 1957–, translator II. Title. III. Title: Homme blanc. English

PS8623.E354H6513 2013 C843’.6 C2013-903546-X C2013-903547-8

Cover design: Marijke Friesen

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