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The first American edition of this work, published as part of a program providing publication assistance, received
financial support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the
United States, and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange).
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This title received a 2013 Batchelder Honor Award for the first edition published in the previous year in 2012
Story and art by Zeina Abirached
Translation by Edward Gauvin
First American edition published in 2012 by Graphic Universe™.
Expanded American edition published in 2022 by Graphic Universe™.
Published by arrangement with Éditions Cambourakis. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel Agency.
A Game for Swallows
© 2007 by Éditions Cambourakis
English translation copyright © 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
Afterword English translation copyright © 2022 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
Quotations from Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac adapted from the 1899 translation by Gladys Thomas and
Mary F. Guillemard.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Abirached, Zeina, 1981– author, artist. | Gauvin, Edward, translator.
Title: A game for swallows : to die, to leave, to return | Zeina Abirached ; translated by Edward Gauvin.
Other titles: Jeu des hirondelles. English
Description: Expanded edition. | Minneapolis : Graphic Universe, 2022. | Audience: Ages 12–18 | Audience: Grades 10–12 |
Summary: “When Zeina’s parents don’t return one afternoon and bombing in Beirut grows closer, her neighbors
create a comfortable world indoors for Zeina and her brother. This expanded edition features a new,
illustrated afterword”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022000021 (print) | LCCN 2022000022 (ebook) | ISBN 9781728446134 (paperback) | ISBN 9781728460987
(ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Abirached, Zeina, 1981–—Juvenile fiction. | Lebanon—History—Civil War, 1975–1990—Juvenile fiction. |
Beirut (Lebanon)—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Graphic novels. | Abirached, Zeina, 1981–—Fiction. | Lebanon—History—
Civil War, 1975–1990—Fiction. | Beirut (Lebanon)—Fiction. | LCGFT: Autobiographical comics. | Historical comics. |
Graphic novels.
Classification: LCC PZ7.7.A256 Gam 2022 (print) | LCC PZ7.7.A256 (ebook) | DDC 741.5/95692—dc23/eng/20220121
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000021
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000022
Manufactured in the United States of America
1-50339-49887-1/6/2022