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ISBN: 978-0-8156-1102-8 (paperback)      978-0-8156-0902-5 (hardcover)

978-0-8156-5445-2 (e-book)

Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover as follows:

Contemporary Iraqi fiction : an anthology / edited and translated from the Arabic by Shakir Mustafa.

p. cm.—(Middle East literature in translation)

ISBN 978-0-8156-0902-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Arabic fiction—Iraq—Translations into English. I. Mustafa, Shakir (Shakir M.)

PJ8046.5. E5C66 2008

892.73'70809567—dc22

2008005417

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