A Oneworld Book
First published in North America, Great Britain and Australia by Oneworld Publications, 2018
This ebook published 2018
Originally published in Russian as ABИaTOP by AST, Elena Shubina imprint, 2016
The publication of the book was negotiated through Banke, Goumen & Smirnova
Literary Agency (www.bgs-agency.com)
Copyright © Eugene Vodolazkin, 2016, 2018
English translation copyright © Lisa C. Hayden, 2018
The moral right of Eugene Vodolazkin to be identified as the Author of this
work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved
Copyright under Berne Convention
A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-78607-271-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-78607-272-6 (ebook)
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation, Russia.
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