{"product_id":"2026200015702-secondhand-the-memoirs-of-a-survivor","title":"The Memoirs Of A Survivor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a crumbling, unnamed city on the edge of societal collapse, an unnamed narrator watches the world unravel from her apartment window — a witness to the slow disintegration of civilisation as crowds of desperate survivors shuffle past in search of safety. Doris Lessing's The Memoirs of a Survivor chronicles this haunting descent through the eyes of a woman who discovers, behind the walls of her flat, a series of dreamlike visions that reveal both the personal past and the mythological depths of the human condition. Into her fragile world arrives Emily, a teenage girl entrusted to her care, whose turbulent coming-of-age mirrors the chaos consuming the streets outside.\n\nLessing constructs a narrative that straddles the boundary between speculative dystopia and psychological allegory, weaving the mundane and the surreal into a seamless, unsettling whole. Drawing on the visionary tradition of writers like Doris Lessing's own The Golden Notebook, this novel argues that the collapse of society is inseparable from the collapse of the self — and that survival, in its truest sense, demands a passage through the darkness of memory and desire. A Nobel Prize-winning author at the height of her imaginative powers, Lessing leaves the reader questioning what lies beyond the wall — and whether any of us are truly prepared to look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203256721627,"sku":"2026200015702-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0de3ffeb-54b8-4950-a406-4702b8bfd34d.png?v=1788146570","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015702-secondhand-the-memoirs-of-a-survivor","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}