Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk

  ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

  ANDREW BROMFIELD was born in Hull in Yorkshire, England, and is the acclaimed translator of the stories and novels of Victor Pelevin and all of Boris Akunin's fiction.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Translation copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc. Dossier copyright © 2008 by Random House, Inc.

  All rights reserved.

  Random House, Inc., New York.

  This work was originally published in Russian as Pelagiya i chorny monakh by Zakharov Publishers, Moscow, in 2001, copyright © 2001 by Boris Akunin. This English translation was originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2007.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Akunin, B. (Boris)

  [Pelagiia i chernyi monakh. English]

  Sister pelagia and the black monk: a novel / Boris Akunin;

  translated by Andrew Bromfield.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49101-5

  I. Bromfield, Andrew. II. Title.

  PG3478.K78P45513 2008

  891.73′5—dc22 2007045132

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