Night lamp

Jack Vance

Original title: Nachtlicht

earliest edition we have, 1996 Spatterlight Press, 2019 paperback 476 pages

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Jaro Fath has been troubled by visions all his life: a garden, a menacing man in black, a woman screaming. Voices fill his head sometimes, saying words that Jaro cannot quite understand. Jaro is an orphan, but he had been adopted under mysterious circumstances by the Faths, a scholarly couple who loved him dearly. They raised him on the planet Thanet, where they gave him everything he could ever desire - except one...

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Editions we hold

Nachtlamp paperback · 2019 · Spatterlight Press · 476 pages · 9781619472884
Night Lamp edition · 2017 · Spatterlight Press · 9781619471252
Night Lamp (eBook) edition · 2015 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781473208933
Night lamp paperback · 2015 · Gollancz · 9781473208926
Nachtlicht. paperback · 2000 · Heyne · 571 pages · 9783453161931
Night Lamp paperback · 1998 · Tor Books · 384 pages · 9780312864729
Night Lamp paperback · 1998 · Tor Books · 9780812550672
NIGHT LAMP paperback · 1998 · Voyager · 380 pages · 9780006482116
NIGHT LAMP. paperback · 1996 · Voyager · 400 pages · 9780002246538
Nightlamp edition · 1996 · Underwood Books · 400 pages · 9781887424189
Night lamp edition · 1996 · TOR · 380 pages

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