The River and the Book

by Alison Croggon

  Cover and chapter illustrations © 2015 Katie Harnett

  Translation from Mahmoud Darwish’s poem “Mural” by Sargon Boulus, originally published in Banipal 15/16 (Spring, 2003), reprinted here courtesy of Banipal

  The right of Alison Croggon and Katie Harnett to be identified as author and illustrator of this work respectively has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:

  a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 978-1-4063-6417-0 (ePub) (UK)

  ISBN 978-1-925126-61-7 (Australia)

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