Because I am a Girl (13 page)
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Authors: Tim Butcher
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First published by Vintage 2010
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Collection Copyright © Vintage 2010
Foreword © Marie Staunton 2010
‘A Response’ © Subhadra Belbase 2010
‘Bendu’s Dream’ © Tim Butcher 2010
‘Ballad of a Cambodian Man’ © Xiaolu Guo 2010
‘Road Song’ © Joanne Harris 2010
‘Ovarian Roulette’ © Kathy Lette 2010
‘The Woman Who Carried a Shop on Her Head’ © Deborah Moggach 2010
‘Change’ © Marie Phillips 2010
‘Remittances’ © Irvine Welsh 2010
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