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Published by Flamingo, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 0002259257ISBN 13: 9780002259255
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 407 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on page edges). Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Published by FLAMINGO, 1999
ISBN 10: 0002259257ISBN 13: 9780002259255
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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.