Books by Doris Lessing (6)
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Das Leben meiner Mutter by Doris Lessing DE
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Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den Tonfall einer Abrechnung zu verfallen: »Ich versuchte unentwegt, mich dem Verlangen meiner Mutter zu entziehen, ich solle klüger als alle anderen sein.« Die Tochter, die in der Tat klüger werden sollte als viele andere, denkt zurück an den kolonialen Alltag im Rhodesien der dreißiger Jahre, an das Dasein ihrer Mutter und an sich selbst, »das Idealbild einer schwierigen Heranwachsenden«. Sie beschreibt, wie unerträglich ihre Mutter war und wie unert... continue
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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing EN
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Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing... continue
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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing EN
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The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.
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The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing EN
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This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.
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The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing EN
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This story of a family, spanning most of the twentieth century, has its fulcrum in the Sixties, that contradictory and embattled decade about which argument becomes louder each day. The youth of that time, bursting old bonds and demanding freedoms, were seen by some of their elders in a manner not at all as they saw themselves, as romantic idealists, but as deeply damaged people. Old Julia, the clan's matriarch, knows why. "You can't have two dreadful wars and then say 'That's it, and now everything will go back to normal.' They're screwed up, our children, they are the children of war." Remar... continue