Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing. n the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white Southern Rhodesia. Mingling memory and reportage in vivid detail, Doris Lessing pays passionate and profound testament to an extraordinary country, its landscape, people and unquenchable spirit. 'African Laughter' is both a shrewd and perceptive protrait of a modern African state emerging from its bloody and terrible colonial history, and a candid and moving insight into the mind of one of this century's finest writers.

African Laughter : Four Visits to Zimbabwe

History

doris-may-lessing

Africa

Flamingo

Mara and Dann

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Shikasta

World Literature

HarperCollins Canada / Voyager

The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.

Prisons We Choose To Live Inside

Essays & Correspondence

Harper&Row

Temptation of Jack Orkney Coll Stor Volume 2 (v. 2)

Cape, Jonathan

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a world deluged with opinions and information, and how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

JONATHAN CAPE.

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The Black Madonna

Paladin

12836--A man, his wife and their best friend in a triangle of passion and betrayal...the strange and shocking relationship between a brother and a sister...the game of seduction played with new rules by a handsome Don Juan and a beautiful and independent woman...a once happily married couple at the shattering crossroads of their life together...These are just some of the forms of love explored by Doris Lessing in a work that strips bare the inmost depths of the human...

A man and two women: Stories (A Touchstone book)

Simon&Schuster

Doris Lessing's powerful first novel, THE GRASS IS SINGING, was praised for its astonishiing maturity and sensitivity when it first appeared. In the arid farmlands of South Africa in the early 1950s, Mary Turner, a frustrated white woman, and Dick, her ineffectual farmer-husband, confront Moses, the virile and enigmatic black servant. When Dick took her to his farm in the veldt, Mary stepped into a life entirely different from anything she had ever imagined. Little by little the ennui of the years on the farm worked their slow poison, and Mary's despair progressed until the fateful day when Moses arrived to begin work in the house. Locked in anguish, Mary Turner and Moses-master and slave-embody the classic pattern of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that culminates this disturbing tale of racial struggle in modern colonial South Africa.

Grass Is Singing

Thomas Y. Crowell, New York

The golden notebook

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

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