Asymmetry

  Copyright © 2014 by Adam Zagajewski

  Translation copyright © 2018 by Clare Cavanagh

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  Originally published in Polish in 2014 by A5, Poland, as Asymetria

  English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  First American edition, 2018

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  eISBN 9780374715267

  First eBook edition: November 2018

  *  From Gottfried Benn, “Chopin,” tr. Michael Hofmann