Book The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series) Doris Lessing

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Flamingo

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0006547184

ISBN13

9780006547181

Edition No.

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series)

Doris Lessing (Author) · Flamingo · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series)"

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their bountiful planet, its weather consistently nurturing, never harsh. They live long, purposeful, untroubled lives.Then one day The Ice begins, and ice and snow cover the planet’s surface. Crops and animals die off, and the people must learn to live with this new desolation. Their only hope is that, as they have been promised, they will be taken from Planet 8 to a new world. But when the Canopean ambassador, Johor, finally arrives, he has devastating news: they will die along with their planet. Slowly they come to understand that their salvation may lie in the creation of one Representative who can save what is most essential to them.Lessing has written a frightening and, finally, hopeful book, a profound and thought-provoking contribution to the science-fiction genre the novel generally.

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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