Excerpt from In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda

In the Sea There are Crocodiles

Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari

by Fabio Geda
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  • Aug 9, 2011, 224 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jun 2012, 224 pages
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What?

Khoda negahdar.

Is that all?

No, there was something else.

What, kaka Rahim?

She said not to do the three things she told you not to do.

Excerpted from In the Sea There are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda. Copyright © 2011 by Fabio Geda. Excerpted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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