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First published in France as

Déjeuner sous l’herbe

by Librairie Arthème Fayard.

 

World copyright ©2012 Librairie Arthème Fayard

English translation ©2015 Jeffrey Zuckerman

First published in English in 2015

by Le French Book, Inc., New York

www.lefrenchbook.com

 

To Anna Kern (poem), Alexander Pushkin,

translated by James Falen, from Selected Lyric Poetry,

Northwestern University Press, 2009

 

Translator: Jeffrey Zuckerman

Translation editor: Amy Richards

Proofreader: Chris Gage

Cover designer: Jeroen ten Berge

Book design: Le French Book

 

ISBNs

978-1-939474-18-6 (Trade paperback)

978-1-939474-17-9 (E-book)

978-1-939474-19-3 (Hardback)

 

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.