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TENDER IS THE FLESH

AGUSTINA BAZTERRICA

CROSSING

PAJTIM STATOVCI

LIAR

AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN

MISS ICELAND

AUDUR AVA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR

WILD SWIMS

DORTHE NORS

MS ICE SANDWICH

MIEKO KAWAKAMI

THE PASSENGER

ULRICH ALEXANDER BOSCHWITZ

LEARNING TO TALK TO PLANTS

MARTA ORRIOLS

AT NIGHT ALL BLOOD IS BLACK

DAVID DIOP

SPARK

NAOKI MATAYOSHI

THE ENCHANTED NIGHT

MIKLOS BÁNFFY

ISLAND

SIRI RANVA HJELM JACOBSEN

ARTURO’S ISLAND

ELSA MORANTE

ONE PART WOMAN

PERUMAL MURUGAN

WILL

JEROEN OLYSLAEGERS

TEMPTATION

JÁNOS SZÉKELY

BIRD COTTAGE

EVA MEIJER

WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD

BENJAMIN LABUTUT

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF STEFAN ZWEIG

STEFAN ZWEIG

THE EVENINGS

GERARD REVE

AN UNTOUCHED HOUSE

WILLEM FREDERIK HERMANS

ODESSA STORIES

ISAAC BABEL

RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY

PASI ILMARI JÄÄSKELÄINEN

ISOLDE

IRINA ODOEVTSEVA

BEAUTY IS A WOUND

EKA KURNIAWAN

BONITA AVENUE

PETER BUWALDA

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SEA

TOMÁS GONZÁLEZ

COIN LOCKER BABIES

RYU MURAKAMI

BINOCULAR VISION

EDITH PEARLMAN

THE SPECTRE OF ALEXANDER WOLF

GAITO GAZDANOV

JOURNEY BY MOONLIGHT

ANTAL SZERB

TRAVELLER OF THE CENTURY

ANDRÉS NEUMAN

BEWARE OF PITY

STEFAN ZWEIG

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© Marie Aubert
First published by Forlaget Oktober AS, 2019
Published in agreement with Oslo Literary Agency
English translation © 2021

GROWN UPS was first published as VOKSNE
MENNESKER by Forlaget in Norway, 2019

First published by Pushkin Press in 2021

This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA

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eISBN 13: 978–1–78227–654–8

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