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Copyright © 2008 by Chris Cleave
Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cleave, Chris.
Little Bee / Chris Cleave.—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
p. cm.
“Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.” 1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Nigerians—England—Fiction. 3. Identity (Psychology)—
Fiction. 4. Emigration and immigration—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6103.L43L58 2009 2008030689
823'.92—dc22

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9383-6
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9383-7

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