1914

Running

Ravel

Piano

I’m Gone

Big Blondes

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Originally published in France as 14 by Les Éditions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 75006, Paris, 2012 Published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2014

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Echenoz, Jean.

[14. English]

1914 : a novel / Jean Echenoz ; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale.

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“Originally published in France as 14 by Les Editions de Minuit, 7, rue Bernard-Palissy, 75006, Paris, 2012.”

ISBN 978-1-59558-924-8 (e-book)

1. World War, 1914-1918 — France — Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Nineteen fourteen.

PQ2665.C5A61413 2013

843’.914—dc23

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