Copyright © 2008 Dany Laferrière
Translation copyright © 2010 David Homel
First U.S. edition 2011

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TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: For Basho, I wish to acknowledge the versions
by Sam Hamill and David Landis Barnhill. The translations of
Paul Veyne are my own. DH