A Way in the World

V. S. Naipaul

earliest edition we have, 1994 FISCHER Taschenbuch, 2013 paperback

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"Most of Us Know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.". So observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum - that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp - which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction, the...

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Editions we hold

A Way in the World Lib/E audiobook · 2018 · Blackstone Publishing · 9781538554968
Ein Weg in der Welt paperback · 2013 · FISCHER Taschenbuch · 9783596196241
Way in the World edition · 2012 · Pan Macmillan · 384 pages · 9781447209348
Way in the World paperback · 2011 · Picador USA · 9780330522885
A Way in the World paperback · 2011 · Vintage Canada · 400 pages · 9780307401465
Way in the World edition · 2011 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299035775
Way in the World paperback · 2002 · Tian Xia · 9789864170807
Un chemin dans le monde paperback · 2001 · 10-18 · 9782264025890
Ein Weg in der Welt. paperback · 2001 · Ullstein TB-Vlg · 415 pages · 9783548602363
Un camino en el mundo hardcover · 2001 · Debate · 383 pages · 9788483064870
A Way in the World hardcover · 1997 · Peter Smith Publisher · 9780844669090
A Way in the World paperback · 1995 · Vintage · 400 pages · 9780679761662

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