The She-Devil in the Mirror (11 page)

Copyright © 2000 Horacio Castellanos Moya

Copyright © 2000 Ediciones Linteo S.L.

Translation Copyright © 2009 by Katherine Silver

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Published by arrangement with Horacio Castellanos Moya and his agent,
the Ray-Gude Mertin Agency.

Originally published in spain as
La diabola en el espejo
by
Ediciones Linteo.

Manufactured in the United States of America

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First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1153) in 2009

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada LTD.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Castellanos Moya, Horacio, 1957–

[Diabola en el espejo. English]

The She-Devil in the Mirror / Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated
from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.

p. cm.

“originally published in spain as la diabola en el espejo by ediciones
linto”—t.p. verso.

eISBN 978-0-8112-1985-3

i. Silver, Katherine. ii. Title.

PQ7539.2.C34D5313 2009

863´64—DC22 2009019762

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