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A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth's climate is much changed - it's colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home ...They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children's constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Mara and Dann
• Author: Doris Lessing
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780006550839
• ISBN: 0006550835
• ID: 04001165
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 462 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 130 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2000

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