African laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe / Doris Lessing

Lessing, Doris (1919-2013)

ISBN 10: 0002550199 / ISBN 13: 9780002550192

Edité par London : HarperCollins, 1992

A propos de cet article

Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 442 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm. Subjects; Lessing, Doris 1919-2013. South Africa Politics and government. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: African laughter : four visits to Zimbabwe / Doris Lessing
• Éditeur: London : HarperCollins
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0002550199
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780002550192
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white Southern Rhodesia. Mingling memory and reportage in vivid detail, Doris Lessing pays passionate and profound testament to an extraordinary country, its landscape, people and unquenchable spirit. ‘African Laughter’ is both a shrewd and perceptive protrait of a modern African state emerging from its bloody and terrible colonial history, and a candid and moving insight into the mind of one of this century’s finest writers.

À propos de l?auteur

Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.