Published in 2024 by the Feminist Press
at the City University of New York
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First Feminist Press edition 2024
Copyright © 2021 by Balsam Karam
English translation copyright © 2024 by Saskia Vogel
Singulariteten by Balsam Karam was first published in 2021 by Norstedts, Sweden.
All rights reserved.
This book was made possible thanks to a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
This book is supported in part by a grant from the Swedish Arts Council.
The epigraph by Pablo Neruda on page vi is reproduced by permission of University of California Press. Canto General, Pablo Neruda, translated by Jack Schmitt, introduced by Roberto González Echevarría, University of California Press, 2011.
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First printing January 2024
Cover design by Sara R. Acedo
Text design by Drew Stevens
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Karam, Balsam, author. | Vogel, Saskia, translator.
Title: The singularity / Balsam Karam ; translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel.
Other titles: Singulariteten. English
Description: First Feminist Press edition. | New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2024.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023032906 (print) | LCCN 2023032907 (ebook) | ISBN 9781558611931 (paperback) | ISBN 9781558613034 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.
Classification: LCC PT9877.21.A725 S5613 2024 (print) | LCC PT9877.21.A725 (ebook) | DDC 839.73/8--dc23/eng/20230718
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