Five: Containing Five Short Novels; A Home For The Highland Cattle, The Other Woman, Eldorado, The Antheap, Hunger
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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From one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes Five, a masterful collection of novellas that strips bare the tensions of colonial life, human longing, and moral complexity. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing presents five distinct yet thematically interwoven short novels — A Home for the Highland Cattle, The Other Woman, Eldorado, The Antheap, and Hunger — each a sharply observed portrait of characters navigating the brutal social hierarchies and quiet desperation of life in Southern Africa. With unflinching clarity and a surgeon's precision, Lessing chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women caught between the worlds of coloniser and colonised, ambition and poverty, love and alienation. Lessing's prose is at once austere and deeply humane, and this collection stands as a defining achievement in her early career, showcasing the thematic preoccupations — race, class, gender, and the corrosive nature of power — that would define her later, celebrated works such as The Golden Notebook. Rooted in the African landscape she knew intimately from her own upbringing in Rhodesia, these novellas carry the weight of lived experience and the authority of a writer utterly unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths. Whether you encounter her work for the first time or return to it anew, Lessing's Five reminds us that injustice is never abstract — it is always, devastatingly, personal.
Author: Doris Lessing
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of the twentieth century's most commanding literary voices comes Five, a masterful collection of novellas that strips bare the tensions of colonial life, human longing, and moral complexity. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing presents five distinct yet thematically interwoven short novels — A Home for the Highland Cattle, The Other Woman, Eldorado, The Antheap, and Hunger — each a sharply observed portrait of characters navigating the brutal social hierarchies and quiet desperation of life in Southern Africa. With unflinching clarity and a surgeon's precision, Lessing chronicles the lives of ordinary men and women caught between the worlds of coloniser and colonised, ambition and poverty, love and alienation. Lessing's prose is at once austere and deeply humane, and this collection stands as a defining achievement in her early career, showcasing the thematic preoccupations — race, class, gender, and the corrosive nature of power — that would define her later, celebrated works such as The Golden Notebook. Rooted in the African landscape she knew intimately from her own upbringing in Rhodesia, these novellas carry the weight of lived experience and the authority of a writer utterly unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths. Whether you encounter her work for the first time or return to it anew, Lessing's Five reminds us that injustice is never abstract — it is always, devastatingly, personal.