Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls’ aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Published in 2009 by Jonathan Cape, London.
Her Fearful Symmetry.
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Translated by Xie Jingwen. Published by People's Literature, Hong Kong, 2013.
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Published in 2010 by Salrim Publishing
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Published in 2010 by Salrim Publishing
Her Fearful Symmetry
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Translated by Gálvölgyi Judit. Published in 2010 by Moly, Budapest, Hungary.
Her Fearful Symmetry
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Translated by Lívia Almeida. Published in 2011 by Editora Objetiva, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
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Translated by Francesc Rovira Faixa. Published in 2010 by Grup62, Barcelona.
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