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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014

First published in the United States by Henry Holt in 2014

Copyright © Kseniya Melnik 2014

Cover photograph © Diana Berlizeva/EyeEm

Kseniya Melnik asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

Some of the stories in this collection have appeared elsewhere, in slightly different form: ‘The Witch’ in Granta’s New Voices series on Granta.com, 2010; ‘Rumba’ in Epoch magazine, 2012 series, Volume 61, Number 3; ‘Love, Italian Style’ as ‘In the queue’ in Prospect magazine, May 2011; and ‘Closed Fracture’ in the Virginia Quarterly Review, fall 2011. Lines from ‘But could you?’ by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Dorian Rottenberg; lines from ‘To He BeTep’ (‘Kruchina’), music by A. Varlamov, lyrics by S. Stromilov; lines from ‘When Youth Leaves’, music by V. Sorokin, lyrics by A. Fatianov.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This collection is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, 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.

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Source ISBN: 9780007548705

Ebook Edition © May 2014 ISBN: 9780007548712

Version: 2015-05-22