This work is published with support from the French Ministry of Culture / Centre national du livre.
Translator’s Note: Thanks to Donald Nicholson-Smith, Gwenaël Kerlidou, and Emmanuelle Ertel for input and insight.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada, Ltd.
First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1215) in 2011.
Design by Erik Rieselbach
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cossery, Albert, 1913–2008.
[Couleurs de l’infamie. English]
The colors of infamy / Albert Cossery ; translated from the French by Alyson Waters.
p. cm. — (New Directions paperbook ; 1215)
eISBN 978-0-8112-2125-2
I. Waters, Alyson, 1955– II. Title.
PQ2605.O725C6413 2011
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