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Joseph wrote: "... This translation never had a Kindle edition. ..."On what do you base this statement?
Dobby wrote: "Joseph wrote: "... This translation never had a Kindle edition. ..."On what do you base this statement?"
I made an educated guess, because you can't find any information about a Kindle edition with this translation and I never saw this edition available on Kindle since the time I have an Amazon's account (2010). Plus, is very rare to a publisher release an old translation on ebook in the same year they advertise "a new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece".
Ah, yes, I see. I'm afraid the mystery is going to continue. You make a good argument, but we cannot prove that the publisher didn't release this as a Kindle edition. We librarians must err on the side of caution and leave it in the catalog.
If we had a statement from the publisher saying they did not release a Kindle edition in 1992, the mystery would be solved and we could call it the duplicate that it most likely is. 🤷🏻♀️


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This translation never had a Kindle edition. As one can check, this entry was added by a librarian in 2017 with no ASIN and since 2011 there was already a Kindle edition published by New Directions with Benjamin Moser's translation.