Copyright © P.O.L éditeur 2011
First published in France as Maudit soit Dostoïevski in 2011

Translation copyright © Polly McLean 2013
First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, London,
in 2013

Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Rahimi, Atiq.

[Maudit soit Dostoïevski. English]
A curse on Dostoevsky / Atiq Rahimi; translated from the French by Polly McLean.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-59051-547-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-59051-548-8 (e-book) 1. Afghanistan—Fiction.
2. Psychological fiction. I. McLean, Polly. II. Title.
PQ3979.3.R34M3813 2014
891’.563—dc23
2013042495

Publisher’s Note:
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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