The Four-Gated City - Children of Violence

Zusatztext "One of the most remarkable feats in contemporary fiction." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Dorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in the 1950's and 60s, Doris Lessing transformed her fascinating life into fiction, creating her most complex and compelling character, Martha Quest. Zusammenfassung "I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." — Barbara Kingsolver The Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer.  In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Doris Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.09.1995
• EAN: 9780060976675
• ISBN: 978-0-06-097667-5
• Seiten: 672
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 38 mm
• Serie: Children of Violence
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Science Fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Politics, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Political, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Biographical, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Urban & Street Lit, Street fiction / urban fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction