Wall

“The Tale of the Sick Princess” from Jacob the Liar, first published at Aufbau Verlag 1969, copyright © 1976 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; English-language translation copyright © 1990, 2014 by Jurek Becker and Leila Vennewitz

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Becker, Jurek, 1937–1997.

[Short stories. Selections. English]

The wall and other stories / Jurek Becker; introduction by Christine Becker. — First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-62872-325-0 (hardback)
eISBN 978-1-62872-402-8

1. Becker, Jurek, 1937–1997—Translations into English. I. Title.

PT2662.E294A2 2014

833’.914—dc23 2013049434

Printed in the United States of America