FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION,
NOVEMBER 1999
Copyright © 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Italy as Ka by Adelphi Edizioni, S.P.A., Milan, in 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Adelphi Edizioni S.P.A. Milano. This translation first published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1998.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Calasso, Roberto.
Ka / Roberto Calasso; translated by Tim Parks.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Mythology, Greek—Fiction. 2. Mythology, Hindu—Fiction.
I. Title. II. Parks, Tim
PQ4863.A3818K3 1998
98087763
eISBN: 978-0-8041-5166-5
Author photograph by Giorgio Magister
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