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Originally published in Japanese as Tanin no Koa 1964 This English translation first published in the U.S.A. 1966
Published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969 Published in Penguin Books 1972
Copyright © Kobo Abé, 1964 Translation copyright © Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1966
Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Set in Linotype Baskerville
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