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A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL, FEBRUARY 2013
Translation copyright © 2009 by Andrew Driver
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan by Shinchosha, Co., Ltd., Toyko, in 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Yasutaka Tsutsui. This translation originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Alma Books Limited, Richmond, in 2009, by arrangement with Yasutaka Tsutsui through Japan Foreign-Rights Centre & Andrew Nurnberg Associates Ltd.
Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Contemporaries and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
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.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tsutsui, Yasutaka, 1934–
[Papurika. English]
Paprika / Yasutaka Tsutsui ; translated from the Japanese by Andrew Driver.
p. cm.—(Vintage contemporaries original)
eISBN: 978-0-307-37727-2
I. Driver, Andrew. II. Title.
PL862.S77P3713 2012
895.6′35—dc23
2011044462
Cover design and illustration by Kelly Blair
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