Exhalation: Stories

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2019 by Ted Chiang

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chiang, Ted, author.

Title: Exhalation / by Ted Chiang.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019]

Identifiers: LCCN 2018030957 (print) | LCCN 2018031993 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101947906 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101947883 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN Classification: LCC PS3603.H53 (ebook) | LCC PS3603.H53 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018030957

Ebook ISBN 9781101947906

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.

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