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Copyright © 2021 by Roxanne Veletzos
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Veletzos, Roxanne, author.
Title: When the summer was ours : a novel / by Roxanne Veletzos.
Description: First Washington Square Press/Atria Paperback edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020055003 | ISBN 9781982152130 (paperback) | ISBN 9781982152147 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Family life—Hungary—Fiction. | World War, 1939–1945—Hungary—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction. | War stories.
Classification: LCC PS3622.E437 W48 2021 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055003
ISBN 978-1-9821-5213-0
ISBN 978-1-9821-5214-7 (ebook)