DORIS LESSING

La historia de la milenaria Shikasta es la historia del planeta Tierra , y de las razas que han habitado en él, contada desde dos puntos de vista: el cósmico , impersonal, las felicidades y pesadillas de la conciencia en un determinado rincón de la galaxia, y el humano o personal, la identidad, el carácter y el destino del individuo 'cuatro'...

The first new novel from Doris Lessing in more than seven years, Love, Again tells the story of a sixty-five-year-old woman who falls in love. Or rather, Sarah Durham falls into a state of love, which is another country altogether, and struggles to maintain her sanity while there. Widowed for many years, with grown children, Sarah is a writ...

Una lúcida novela sobre la condición de ser mujer en un mundo dominado por los hombres. Reconocida como la obra más emblemática de Doris Lessing , testimonio clave sobre la condición femenina y crónica de una generación, El cuaderno dorado relata la profunda crisis vital de la escritora y militante comunista Anna Wulf. Intentará salvarse con un...

Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection 'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was -- and still is -- the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very...

A collection of Doris Lessing's charming and celebrated writings about cats. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination remained undiminished by the handsome domesticated creatures who shared her flats and her life in L...

Doris Lessing 's two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle , a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap , set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessing's shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well...

Many will recall the powerful impact The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, now grown to legal maturity, is the central character of...

This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her "Canopus in Argos" quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in 'Mara and Dann', of which this is a sequel, in 1999. The earth's climate has changed - it is colder than eve...

“En un article científic recent es deia que la soca humana bàsica i primigènia probablement era femenina, i que els mascles van arribar més tard (...). La reflexió sobre aquest tema em va provocar una sèrie d’especulacions i, després, els giravolts de la imaginació que porten al naixement d’històries. Aquesta és una de les històries que expliq...

The new novel from one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. 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...