Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Couverture rigide

Lessing, Doris May

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060182946 ISBN 13 : 9780060182946

Editeur : Harperflamingo, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Doris Lessing

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, Mara and Dann is imaginative fiction at its best.

Biographie de l'auteur

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harperflamingo
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060182946
• ISBN 13: 9780060182946
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 407