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First published in India in 2015 by Harper Perennial
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers India
Original copyright © Intizar Husain 2015
Translation copyright © Rakhshanda Jalil 2015
P-ISBN: 978-93-5177-280-4
Epub Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 978-93-5177-281-1
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Intizar Husain asserts the moral right
to be identified as the author of this work.
This is a work of fiction and all characters and incidents described in this book are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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