Other Press edition 2009

Copyright © 2000 Miklós Vámos
Translation copyright © 2006 Peter Sherwood
Originally published in Hungarian as Apák könyve by Ab Ovo,
Budapest, in 2000. First published in the United Kingdom by Abacus,
an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, London, in 2006.

Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Vámos, Miklós.
 [Apák könyve. English]
 The book of fathers / Miklós Vámos; translated from the Hungarian
by Peter Sherwood.
  p. cm.
 eISBN: 978-1-59051-356-9
1. Family—Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 3. Hungary—
History—Fiction. I. Title.
 PH3351.V233A6313 2009
 894′.51133—dc22

2009002614

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

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