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The visionary new novel 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 Mara and Dann, of which this is a sequel, in 1999.
The earth’s climate has changed – it is colder than ever before – and Dann, four in the first book, is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership.
Doris Lessing’s new novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that will eventually lead to the discovery of a secret library.
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'Lessing engages the reader constantly...the plot is complicated, deliciously so' -- The Scotsman
'Lessing pierces the heart with the half quotations that Dann’s scribes scribble down as the books fall to dust' -- Sunday Times, Maggie Gee
'Lessing's new novel is as unsettling as anything she has ever written' -- The Independent
'a fable, with the lingering, troubling quality of an ancient tale...dreamlike, haunting, powerful.' -- Geraldine Bedell, Observer
'a nihilistic version of The Lord of the Rings with a deeply flawed, Shakespearean tragic hero at its centre.' -- Financial Times
'gripping and beautiful in its elemental extremity...Lessing is at her best describing the...gleaming marsh and dramatic ice' -- Daily Telegraph
'written with such zest, imagination, sympathy and intelligence...a piece of compelling narrative, wonderfully imagined". -- The Spectator
‘A piece of compelling narrative, wonderfully imagined. It is an adventure story and a very good one.’ -- Allan Massie
‘This visionary novel...is, fundamentally, an impassioned warning: dystopia could be the future.’ -- Daily Mail
About the Author:
'Lessing pierces the heart with the half quotations that Dann’s scribes scribble down as the books fall to dust' -- Sunday Times, Maggie Gee
'Lessing's new novel is as unsettling as anything she has ever written' -- The Independent
'a fable, with the lingering, troubling quality of an ancient tale...dreamlike, haunting, powerful.' -- Geraldine Bedell, Observer
'a nihilistic version of The Lord of the Rings with a deeply flawed, Shakespearean tragic hero at its centre.' -- Financial Times
'gripping and beautiful in its elemental extremity...Lessing is at her best describing the...gleaming marsh and dramatic ice' -- Daily Telegraph
'written with such zest, imagination, sympathy and intelligence...a piece of compelling narrative, wonderfully imagined". -- The Spectator
‘A piece of compelling narrative, wonderfully imagined. It is an adventure story and a very good one.’ -- Allan Massie
‘This visionary novel...is, fundamentally, an impassioned warning: dystopia could be the future.’ -- Daily Mail
Doris Lessing was born in Persia in 1919 and brought up in Rhodesia. She first came to England in 1949 and her first novel was published in 1950. She is now widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of the second half of the twentieth century.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0007152809
- ISBN 13 9780007152803
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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