GOING HOME: A Compelling Non-Fiction Memoir of Colonial Africa and Zimbabwe - Softcover

Lessing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006545157 ISBN 13: 9780006545156

Publisher: Flamingo, 1992

Synopsis

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.

In 1956, some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned home to Southern Rhodesia. It was a journey that was both personal – a revisiting of a land and people she knew – and, inevitably, political: Southern Rhodesia was now part of the Central African Federation, where the tensions between colonialism and self-determination were at their most deeply felt.

‘Going Home’ is a book that combines journalism, reportage and memoir, humour, farce and tragedy; a book fired by the love of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers for a country and a continent that she felt compelled to leave.

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About the Author

Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006545157
• ISBN 13: 9780006545156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258