Shikasta: Re, Colonized Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (GEORGE SHERBAN EMISSARY) - Hardcover

Lessing, Doris May

 
9780394507323: Shikasta: Re, Colonized Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (GEORGE SHERBAN EMISSARY)

Synopsis

A variety of narratives, including the report of Johor (George Sherban)--the Emissary sent by the Powers controlling our part of the universe--reveal what the planet Shikasta and its inhabitants have, in desperation, endured

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Review

"An audacious and disturbing work from one of the world's great living writers." -Paul Gray, Time"A stunning book.... Read it, read Lessing like a message of hope in dark times...read her for a winter's evening entertainment; read her to nourish your soul." -Frank Pierson, Los Angeles Times"If the subsequent novels sustain the power of Shikasta...this series may well be a masterpiece." -The Atlantic

About the Author

Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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