Publication
The novella originally appeared as "The Final Solution: A Story of Detection" "in a slighty different form" in The Paris Review #166, Summer 2003. It won the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and was reprinted in book form in November 2004.
The epigraph by Mary Jo Salter is taken from her poem "Alternating Currents", in A Kiss in Space: Poems (1999).
The book's cover and illustrations were drawn by Jay Ryan.
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