Also by Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream

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English translation copyright © 2019 by Megan McDowell

Copyright © 2017, 2019 by Samanta Schweblin

Originally published, in Spain and in somewhat different form, as Pájaros en la boca by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in 2017

This compilation subsequently published in different form by Riverhead in 2019.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the Riverhead hardcover edition as follows:

Names: Schweblin, Samanta, author. | McDowell, Megan, translator.

Title: Mouthful of birds : stories / Samanta Schweblin ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.

Description: First American edition. | New York : Riverhead Books, 2019. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2018000127 | ISBN 9780399184628 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399184642 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Schweblin, Samanta—Translations into English.

Classification: LCC PQ7798.29.C5388 A2 2018 | DDC 863/.64—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000127

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First Riverhead hardcover edition: January 2019

First Riverhead trade paperback edition: January 2020

Riverhead trade paperback ISBN: 9780399184635

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.

Cover design: Stephen Brayda

Cover image: Masaaki Miyazawa / The Image Bank / Getty Images

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