The Rabbit Back Literature Society (29 page)
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Authors: Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen
Tags: #Fantasy, #Contemporary
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Original text © 2006 Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
English translation © 2013 Lola M. Rogers
The Rabbit Back Literature Society
was first published in Finland as
Lumikko ja yhdeksän muuta
by Atena Kustannus
Published by agreement with the Kontext Agency
This edition first published by Pushkin Press in 2013
ISBN 978 1 782270 77 5
We thank FILI for their generous support of this translation
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