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Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, last visited in her acclaimed ‘Canopus in Argos’ quintet of novels in the 1980s.
It is sooner than you might think. And the earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home, getting used to all these new names...
They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, to make a new life in this unforgiving rocky terrain. Their new guardian seems to be of their kin, and the caution and curiosity of her neighbours confirms to the alert Mara that she and Dann are in some way marked as notable, so special that many will come to seek them, many to suspect them, and disguise will often seem the best option. This new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions as they grow into their selves. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures, cultures, trials, revelations and crises that bring them through to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew, to achieve a new kind of notability.
Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value.
One of the major writers of the twentieth century.
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Good. 407 pages. Cover worn Two children, Mara and Dann, are victim s of a palace coup and are forced to flee from their home in the middle of the night - They join a great migration northwards and survive many dangers_. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3192p
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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. 407 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book is in Very good condition throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 198038
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Buchbeschreibung SOFTCOVER. A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home . They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children's constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value. 1999. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17055679
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