PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA

Copyright © 2019 Anosh Irani

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Published in 2019 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Translated from the gibberish :

seven stories and one half truth / Anosh Irani.

Names: Irani, Anosh, 1974- author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190076194 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190076216 |

ISBN 9780735278523 (softcover) | ISBN 9780735278530 (HTML)

Classification: LCC PS8617.R36 T74 2019 | DDC C813/.6—dc23

Ebook ISBN  9780735278530

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text and cover design: Jennifer Lum

Cover images: (suitcase) ©Sean Gladwell/Getty Images;

(ocean) ©Jiri Flogel/Shutterstock.com

Interior images: (boarding pass) © Nete/VectorStock

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