Amatka

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A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, JUNE 2017

English translation copyright © 2017 by Karin Tidbeck

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Sweden by Mix Förlag, Stockholm, in 2012. Copyright © 2012 by Karin Tidbeck.

Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

This 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.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tidbeck, Karin, 1977– author.

Title: Amatka / Karin Tidbeck.

Other titles: Amatka. English

Description: New York : Vintage, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016043285 (print) | LCCN 2017002988 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101973950 (paperback) | ISBN 9781101973967 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Language and languages—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Science Fiction / General. | FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical. | GSAFD: Dystopian fiction.

Classification: LCC PT9877.3.I45 A6313 2017 (print) | LCC PT9877.3.I45 (ebook) | DDC 839.73/8—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016043285

Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN 9781101973950

Ebook ISBN 9781101973967

Cover design by Joan Wong

Cover images: city © Algol/Shutterstock and smokestacks © rsooll/Shutterstock

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