In Free Fall

Copyright

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

Translation copyright © 2010 by Christine Lo

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Originally published in Germany as Schilf by Schöffling & Co. Verlagsbuchhandlung GmBH, Frankfurt am Main, in 2007. Copyright © 2007 by Schöffling & Co. Verlagsbuchhandlung GmBH, Frankfurt am Main.

This translation originally published in Great Britain in paperback as Dark Matter by Harvill Secker, the Random House Group Ltd., London.

Doubleday is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Zeh, Juli

[Schilf. English]

In free fall : a novel / Juli Zeh ; translated from the German by Christine Lo. — 1st ed. in the U.S.

p. cm.

I. Lo, Christine. II. Title.

PT2688.E28S3513 2010

2009042894

eISBN: 978-0-385-53318-8

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