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Susan Rawlings, eine Frau in den besten Jahren, die eigentlich alles hat, was nach landläufiger Meinung eine Frau sich nur wünschen kann: einen gutaussehenden, erfolgreichen Ehemann, vier wohlerzogene Kinder und ein schönes Haus mit Garten in Richmond, beginnt auf einmal, immer öfter die Tage in einem schäbigen Zimmer in einem Stundenhotel zu verbringen, wo es eines Tages zur Katastrophe kommt. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der...

Nobelpreis für Literatur 2007 »Afrikanische Tragödie« ist Doris Lessings erster Roman. Die britische Kolonie Rhodesien (heutiges Simbabwe) in Südafrika, wo sie aufwuchs, ist Schauplatz des Buches. Erzählt wird die Geschichte der Farmersfrau Mary. Mary ist in ärmlichen Verhältnissen auf dem Land groß geworden. Kaum erwachsen, zieht sie in die Stadt. Um nicht als alte Jungfer zu enden, lässt sie sich auf eine Heirat mit dem Farmer Richard Turne...

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened wi...

Two friends, two sons, two shocking and intense love affairs . . .Roz and Lil have been best friends since childhood. But their bond stretches beyond familiar bounds when these middle-aged mothers fall in love with each other's teenage sons—taboo-shattering passions that last for years, until the women end them, vowing to have a respectable old age. With Adore, Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, once again proves her unri...

In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enligh...

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggleagainst a ruthless fate.Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the ...

In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a world deluged with opinions and information, and how to look at our society and ourselves with fresh eyes.

This highly acclaimed second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography chronicles her growth from a fledgling writer to one of literature's most respected figures. B&W, photos.

Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an...

Africa belongs to the Africans, the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps..." "Going Home" is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion and her concern are still invested. Returning ...

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country."--New York Times Book Review

One of the greats of English literature returns to print with this collection of four short, intensely observed, novels in one volume. "Doris Lessing has changed the way we think about the world" Blake Morrison

From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind’s beginnings.In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Chi...

Der zweite Weltkrieg ist beendet, doch das erleichterte Aufatmen, die erhoffte Wende findet nicht statt: Der Krieg hat zerschlagen was an Wertvorstellungen vorhanden gewesen war, und neues ist nicht in Sicht. Geblieben ist einzig: Gewalt. Doch Martha glaubt nicht an Gewalt. Ihr Wissen ist eine Hoffnung und kann nicht belegt werden, denn auch ihr zerbröckelt die Welt zwischen den Fingern. Die einzige Hoffnung, die sie in sich hat, liegt in der...

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Zwei Liebende sind die Hauptfiguren, sie Australierin, er Amerikaner, aber das ganze Stück spielt in den Londoner vier Wänden der Heldin. Es ist eine Welt der »Bindungen«: verfilzte Beziehungen, Psychoanalyse und Einordnung in die Gesellschaft, Unterwerfung der Frau und Domestizierung des Mannes. Die Heldin will weder den Tiger zähmen noch sich von ihm auffressen lassen. Und auch der Tiger weiß nicht recht, was er will. Die Bühne zeigt das Dil...

Dann is grown up now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions--Mara's daughter, his hope for the future, the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories, and the snow dog, a faithful friend who brings him back from the depths of despair--Dann embarks on a strange and captivating adventure in a suddenly colder, more watery cl...

In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays, we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a century, to read the world differently. From imagining the secret sex life of Tolstoy to the secrets of Sufism, from reviews of classic books to commentaries on world politics, these essays cover an impressive range of subjects, cultures, period...

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence seri...