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Fed, he again backed himself against the wall, squatted on the bed, and looked at the door where his jailers would enter: he had not really understood he was at home.

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A Flamingo Modern Classic 2002

Previously published in paperback by

Triad Grafton 1979 and Flamingo 1994

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1978

‘Twenty Years’ first published in 1994 in the
Daily Telegraph

Copyright © Doris Lessing 1953, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1969,

1971, 1972, 1994

This edition copyright © Doris Lessing 2002

Preface copyright © Doris Lessing 1994

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental

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EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007322275

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