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Seller: Irolita Books, Aurora, ON, CanadaIrolita Books
AbeBooks seller since May 8, 2018
Condition: Used - Good
£ 13.20
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Several creases to cover. Pages are beginning to tan. 20 cm. 407 pages. In a world destroyed by environmental damage, a people trek north in search of the remnants of civilization. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.
Seller Inventory # 11669
- Title
- Mara and Dann
- Author
- Doris Lessing
- Publisher
- Flamingo, London
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- GOOD
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0006550835
- ISBN 13
- 9780006550839
- Item weight
- 410 grams
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction
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.
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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.
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Deanna Ramsay
14083 Leslie Street
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