The Females

Copyright

Originally published as Die Weiber, Alte Abdeckerei, Die Kunde von den Bäumen by Wolfgang Hilbig, Werke, Erzählungen

© 2010, S. Fischer Verlag GmbH,

Frankfurt am Main

Translation © 2018 by Isabel Fargo Cole

Two Lines Press

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www.twolinespress.com

ISBN 978-1-931883-76-4

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018948090

Cover design by Gabriele Wilson

Cover photo by Millennium Images/Adrian Muttitt

Typeset by Jessica Sevey

Printed in the United States of America

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This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.