EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2012 ISBN: 978-1-443-40745-8
Published by Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
First published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in a hardcover edition: 2011 This Harper Perennial trade paperback edition: 2012
The poem quoted in the epigraph is from The Afghans, by Mohammed Ali, Kabul, 1969.
Portions of this novel have previously been published in slightly diff erent form in The Atlantic.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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