First published in 2010 as Mortfaat Brooklyn
by Merit Publishing House Cairo
This translation first published in Egypt in 2011
by American University in Cairo Press
First published in this edition in 2012
by Faber and Faber Limited
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2012
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