The Cleft: A Novel - Couverture souple

Lessing, Doris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060834870 ISBN 13 : 9780060834876

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Lessing Doris

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born—until the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a boy.

Revue de presse :

“One of postcolonial fiction’s brightest lights makes mythic the battle of the sexes. . . . A dark parable, powerful . . . ” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Superb and daring...What an amazing book...A marvelous...gift from one of the great mothers of the contemporary novel.” (Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune)

“A revised origin of species...ironic, provocative, epic, heretical, post-modern...vividly descriptive” (Elsbeth Lindner, Miami Herald)

“Eminent novelist Lessing offers an alternative origin story for the human race.” (Publishers Weekly)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060834870
• ISBN 13: 9780060834876
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272