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Tre racconti, pervasi dall'imprevisto, dal senso sconcertante delle umane possibilita, dalla sensazione da parte dei protagonisti di precipitare nella vita e di esserne, allo stesso tempo, ai margini. Due amiche, alla scomparsa dei mariti, iniziano una relazione ciascuna con il figlio adolescente dell'altra. Una ragazzina di colore, orfana e povera, ha una breve relazione con un ragazzo ricco, bianco, di famiglia liberale. All'insaputa del giovane, ha una figlia e quando la bambina ha sei anni, non potendo piu mantenerla, si mette in contatto con la famiglia del ragazzo. Un soldato vive nel ricordo di una donna incontrata durante la seconda guerra mondiale, nella convinzione di aver concepito un figlio e di aver condotto un'esistenza sbagliata.

Por primera vez en bolsillo, las memorias de la controvertida ganadora del Premio Nobel 2007. Su infancia en África y su llegada a Londres en 1949 con el manuscrito de su primera novela en la maleta; su vida en Londres como una joven escritora y madre soltera; sus pensamientos sobre el amor, el dinero, la política y las personas… Estos dos volúmenes de memorias son un valiosísimo testimonio de historia social y de la educación sentimental de una escritora fundamental. También constituyen el complemento ideal a las cinco novelas de la autora que DeBolsillo irá publicando a lo largo de 2008.

This is a fascinating novel of love and ecology, from one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her "Canopus in Argos" quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in 'Mara and Dann', of which this is a sequel, in 1999. The earth's climate has changed - it is colder than ever before - and Dann, four in the first book, is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. Doris Lessing's new novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that will eventually lead to the discovery of a secret library.

Femmes hors du commun, Julia, la doyenne de la famille, et Frances se battent pour leurs enfants. A travers l'histoire de la famille Lennox, Doris Lessing évoque la jeunesse des années 1960, celle qui, au sortir de deux guerres mondiales, voulut briser les vieilles chaînes et revendiquer sa liberté. Étaient-ils des idéalistes romantiques ou une génération meurtrie ? Un témoignage exceptionnel d'un des plus grands écrivains vivants de notre temps.

James Reid est un jeune homme romantique dont le principal défaut est d'avoir trop rêvé sa vie avant qu'elle ne commence véritablement. Durant l'été 1939, il embarque pour l'Inde avec son régiment et, lors d'une escale au Cap, croit trouver en Daphné, jeune femme mariée, le grand amour qu'il attendait. A la fin de la guerre, il apprend que de cette liaison passionnée est né un enfant qui ne se sait pas illégitime. James va alors tout entreprendre pour rencontrer son fils.

The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' In this extraordinary book, Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book, Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all, a story that has them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester as children but leading separate lives.This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war, their move to Rhodesia, a damaged couple squatting over Doris's childhood in a strange land. 'Here I still am,' says Doris Lessing, 'trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free.' With the publication of 'Alfred and Emily' she has done just that.

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.

Une interminable période de sécheresse a décimé des populations entières, forçant les survivants à remonter vers le nord, là où se trouvent les dernières ressources en eau. C'est ainsi que commence l'odyssée de Mara et Dann, deux enfants abandonnés puis pourchassés, qui vont connaître la faim, la violence, la trahison, mais aussi l'amour et la maturité. Une quête initiatique qui traverse la Méditerranée et les mythes fondateurs de notre civilisation.

A obra coa que Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2007, acadou o recoñecemento internacional. Publicada por primeira vez en 1962 e considerada unha das grandes novelas do século XX, O caderno dourado conta a historia de Anna Wulf, unha escritora inmersa nunha crise persoal que decide as súas experiencias en catro cadernos de cor diferente: o caderno negro para a súa vida literaria, o vermello para a política, o amarelo para a vida emocional e o azul para todo o cotián.

The story of a middle-aged woman's search for freedom from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences

With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.

Selection of essays and writing from the acclaimed British writer. Funny, warm and nostalgic, they range across many decades and subjects. "Doris Lessing has changed the way we think about the world"

Now part of the Voyager Classics collection. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Twentieth-century Earth, named 'Shikasta, the stricken' by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.

Doris Lessing's two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle, a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap, set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessing's shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well as a critical introduction and a selection of primary source material, such as excerpts from interviews with Doris Lessing, short fiction by contemporary African women writers, reviews, and historical documents focussing on race and socio-economic conditions in the former Southern Rhodesia.

Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. This volume consists of her collection of cat stories, Particularly Cats and Rufus, and the memoir, The Old Age of El Magnifico.

The earth's climate has changed - it is colder than ever before - and Dann is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. This novel of love and ecology charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that eventually leads to the discovery of a secret library.

Publicado originalmente como parte de la antología “A Man and Two Women”, editada en 1963, To Room Nineteen es uno de los mejores ejemplos de la lucha literaria de la autora, que ganaría el Nobel en

" Parce que le poids de la Première Guerre mondiale a brisé son père, parce que l'émigration en Rhodésie a fait perdre à sa mère le goût de vivre, Doris Lessing a voulu imaginer l'ex