The Tax Inspector

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, JANUARY 1993

Copyright © 1991 by Peter Carey

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 1991. First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1991.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., for permission to reprint an excerpt from ‘Beds Are Burning’ by Robert Hirst, James Moginie, and Peter Garrett. Copyright © 1987 by Sprint Music Pty. Ltd. All right reserved.