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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)