This Is a Borzoi Book
Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2011 by Ida Hattemer-Higgins
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A portion of the work previously appeared in Salon.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data
Hattemer-Higgins, Ida.
The history of history : a novel of Berlin / Ida
Hattemer-Higgins. —1st ed.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi book”—T.p. verso.
eISBN: 978-0-307-59437-2
1. Young women—Fiction. 2. Amnesiacs—Fiction. 3. Berlin
(Germany)
—History—20th century—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I.
Title.
PS3608.A8655H57 2011
813′.6—dc22 2010036707
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Jacket photograph by Elizabeth Etienne / © Corbis / Alamy
Jacket design by Chip Kidd
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