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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Marais, Bianca, author.

Title: Hum if you don’t know the words / Bianca Marais.

Description: New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016043197 (print) | LCCN 2017006944 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399575068 (hardback) | ISBN 9780399575075 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: South Africa—History—Soweto Uprising, 1976—Fiction. | South Africa—History—1961-1994—Fiction. | Apartheid—South Africa—Fiction. | Family life—South Africa—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | FICTION / Family Life.

Classification: LCC PR9199.4.M3414 H86 2017 (print) | LCC PR9199.4.M3414 (ebook) |

DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043197

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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