Deathless (42 page)

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

DEATHLESS

Copyright © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente

Anna Akhmatova translations copyright © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente and Dmitri Zagidulin

Pushkin translations copyright © 2011 by Catherynne M. Valente

All rights reserved.

Edited by Liz Gorinsky

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Valente, Catherynne M., 1979–

Deathless / Catherynne M. Valente.—1st ed.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-2630-0

  1.  Young women—Fiction.   2.  Russia—History—20th century—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3622.A4258D43 2011

813’.6—dc22

2010036670

First Edition: April 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-6840-9

First Tor eBook Edition: March 2011