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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by Marc-Uwe Kling

English translation © 2020 by Jamie Lee Searle

Cover design by Rodrigo Corral Studio. Cover copyright © 2020 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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First published in Germany in 2017 by Ullstein Verlag. First English translation published in Great Britain in 2020 by Orion Fiction, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., a Hachette UK Company.

First Grand Central Publishing edition: January 2020

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LCCN: 2019951938

ISBNs: 978-1-5387-3296-0 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-3297-7 (ebook)

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