No Place for Heroes (32 page)

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

Translation copyright © 2010 by Laura Restrepo

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Originally published in Spain as
Demasiados héroes
by Alfaguara, an imprint of Santillana Ediciones Generales, S.L., Madrid, in 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Laura Restrepo.

Doubleday is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Restrepo, Laura.
  [Demasiados héroes. English]
  No place for heroes: a novel / Laura Restrepo ; translated from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed. —1st American ed.
      p. cm.
  Originally published in Spain as Demasiados héroes in 2009.
  1. Mothers and sons—Fiction. 2. Colombians—Argentina—Fiction. 3. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 4. Birthfathers—Fiction. 5. Buenos Aires (Argentina)—Fiction. 6. Argentina—History—Dirty War, 1976–1983—Fiction. I. Mestre-Reed, Ernesto. II. Title. PQ8180.28.E7255D4713 2010
863′.64—dc22          2009047858

eISBN: 978-0-385-53325-6

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