Dog Years

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Pty Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

Hundejahre first published in Germany 1963 This translation published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg 1965 Published in Penguin Books 1969 Copyright © Lega Hermann Lutchterhand, Verlag GmbH. Translation copyright © Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., and Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1965

Made and printed in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks Set in Monotype Times

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