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First published in English by Scribe in 2019

Originally published as Das achte Leben (Für Brilka) in German by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt GmbH in 2014

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Excerpt from ‘In a Shattered Mirror’ by Anna Akhmatova from The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova: Living in Different Mirrors by Alexandra Harrington quoted by kind permission of Anthem Press.
Excerpts from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova translated by Judith Hemschemeyer reprinted by kind permission of Canongate Books.
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