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Copyright © 2000 by Ronit Matalon

Translation copyright © 2003 by Metropolitan Books

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Originally published in Israel in 2000 under the title Sarah, Sarah by Am Oved, Tel Aviv

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data

Matalon, Ronit.

[Sarah, Sarah. English]

Bliss: a novel / Ronit Matalon ; translated by Jessica Cohen.

    p. cm.

ISBN 0-8050-6602-0 (HB)

I. Cohen, Jessica. II. Title.

PJ5054.M3274 S2713 2003

892.4'36—dc21

2002034662

First American Edition 2003

eISBN 9781466845756

First eBook edition: April 2013