How to read the air

Dinaw Mengestu

earliest edition we have, 2010 Jonathan Cape, 2010

Terres d'Amérique

Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.

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Editions we hold

How to Read the Air edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 9781448137114
How to Read the Air edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 336 pages · 9780099521037
How to Read the Air paperback · 2011 · Riverhead Books · 320 pages · 9781594485398
How to read the air edition · 2011 · Center Point Pub. · 9781602859555
Ce qu'on peut lire dans l'air edition · 2011 · A. Michel · 368 pages · 9782226229779
How to read the air edition · 2010 · Riverhead Books · 305 pages · 9781594487705
How to read the air edition · 2010 · Jonathan Cape · 9780224084710

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