Name: the four-gated city (in English)
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Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780060976675

portada the four-gated city (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

1995

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7 x 12.9 x 4.1 cm

Weight

0.74 kg.

ISBN

0060976675

ISBN13

9780060976675

Synopsis "the four-gated city (in English)"

"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." -- Barbara KingsolverThe Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.

Doris Lessing

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(Irán, 1919 - Londres, 2013). Escritora inglesa nacida en Irán. En 1924 su familia se trasladó a Zimbabwe, allí vivió su infancia y juventud en una granja. Abandonó el Instituto a los catorce años para iniciar una formación autodidacta. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007. Su contacto y amor por África constituyó la narrativa de algunas de sus novelas; el tema de la emancipación de la mujer abunda también en su obra de ficción. También incursionó en el terreno de la fantasía como ángulo de observación de la condición humana. El cuaderno dorado (1962) es su obra más famosa.

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