TRANSLATED BY JOHN BATKI
Copyright © 1986 by László Krasznahorkai
Translation copyright © 2016 by John Batki
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First published as a New Directions Book in 2016
Design by Erik Rieselbach
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Krasznahorkai, László, author. | Szirtes, George, 1948– translator. | Batki, John, translator. | Krasznahorkai, László. Utolsó farkas. English. | Krasznahorkai, László. Herman, a vadőr. English. Title: The last wolf ; & Herman : the game warden, the death of a craft / Laszlo Krasznahorkai ; translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes and John Batki.
Other titles: The last wolf and Herman
Description: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016. | “Originally published in Hungarian as Az utolsó farkas (The Last Wolf, originally published 2009), and Herman, a vadőr, A mesterségnek vége (Herman, originally published 1986)”—Title page verso.
Classification: LCC PH3281.K8866 A2 2016 (print) | LCC PH3281.K8866 (ebook) | DDC 894/.51134—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022374
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