Hard to Be a God

Copyright

Copyright © 1964 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Foreword copyright © 2014 by Hari Kunzru

Afterword copyright © 2014 by Boris Strugatsky

English language translation copyright © 2014 by Chicago Review Press Incorporated

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The publication was effected under the auspices of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation TRANSCRIPT Programme to Support Translations of Russian Literature.

Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation (Russia).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Strugatskii, Arkadii, 1925–1991, author.

[Trudno byt’ bogom. English. 2014]

Hard to be a god / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ; translated by Olena Bormashenko.

pages ; cm

ISBN 978-1-61374-828-2

I. Strugatskii, Boris, 1933–2012, author. II. Bormashenko, Olena, translator.

III. Title.

PG3476.S78835T7813 2014

891.73’44—dc23

2014007355

Interior design: PerfecType, Nashville, TN

Printed in the United States of America

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