Pascal Mercier - Perlmann's Silence

Translation copyright © 2011 by Shaun Whiteside

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First published as Perlmanns Schweigen in German, in Germany, in 1995 by Albrecht Knaus Verlag

First published in English, in Great Britain in 2011 by Atlantic Books,

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