Sun Between Their Feet (v. 2) (Collected African Stories) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586046011 ISBN 13: 9780586046012

Publisher: Grafton, 1979

Synopsis

Collected African Stories: Volume Two - The Sun Between Their Feet

About this title

Review:

‘Some stories are set in the Twenties, others in the war, others thereafter, but all draw with unhampered directness upon childhood sensation undiminished by distance and memory. With a boundless fecundity and flow, these stories are timeless, as though heat and wilderness took the place of time.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Doris Lessing can take what appears to be commonplace, mere passing anecdote and turn it deftly until its inner light is released: one feels that she has gazed upon the stories in her mind until that peculiar angle of vision, the angle that pierces obliquely but clean to the heart of a thing, has finally been found.’ The Times

From the Back Cover:

"As for those stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it; it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chief's Country."
DORIS LESSING, from the Preface

This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide-open space, as well as the great irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village – all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing's own words, "Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature among other creatures, in a large landscape."

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her most recent books include the celebrated novels, 'Love Again' and 'Mara and Dann', and the two volumes of autobiography, 'Under My Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade.' She lives in North London.

“Some stories are set in the Twenties, others in the war, others thereafter, but all draw with unhampered directness upon childhood sensation undiminished by distance and memory. With a boundless fecundity and flow, these stories are timeless, as though heat and wilderness took the place of time.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH

“Doris Lessing can take what appears to be commonplace, mere passing anecdote and turn it deftly until its inner light is released: one feels that she has gazed upon the stories in her mind until that peculiar angle of vision, the angle that pierces obliquely but clean to the heart of a thing, has finally been found.”
THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0586046011
• ISBN 13: 9780586046012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336