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Original text © 2003 Akiyuki Nosaka
English translation © Ginny Tapley Takemori 2015
The Cake Tree in the Ruins was first published in Japanese as 
(Sensō dōwa shū) in 2003 by Chuokoron-Shinsha, Inc., Tokyo (Original edition 1980)
The first seven stories in this volume were first published
by Pushkin Press in 2015 as
The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine
This edition first published in 2018
1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2
ISBN 13: 978–1–78227–419–3
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The verses quoted in ‘The Parrot and the Boy’ are from the song ‘Seagull Sailors’ by Toshiko Takeuchi, translated by B. Ito