The Dead Lake

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First published in English in 2014

by Peirene Press, 17 Cheverton Road, London, N19 3BB

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This ebook edition first published in 2014.

Originally published in under the original Russian Language title by Druzbha Narodov, 2011

Copyright © 2011 by Hamid Ismailov

This translation © Andrew Bromfield, 2014

Hamid Ismailov asserts his moral right to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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ISBN 978–1–908670–19–9

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

Designed by Sacha Davison-Lunt.

This translation was effected under the auspices of the Mikhail Prokhorov Funding TRANSCRIPT to Support Translations of Russian Literature.