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Dedication
To Cris, more than ever
Skin
Sergio del Molino
Translated from Spanish by
Thomas Bunstead
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Original Spanish edition © Sergio del Molino, 2020. Published by special arrangement with The Ella Sher Literary Agency
First published in Spanish as La Piel by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S. A. U.
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Excerpt from LETTERS TO VÉRA by Vladimir Nabokov, edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd, compilation copyright © 2014 by The Estate of Vladimir Nabokov.
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‘Everything would be fine, if it weren’t for the damned skin.’
Vladimir Nabokov
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