{"product_id":"9780006550839-secondhand-mara-and-dann","title":"Mara and Dann","description":"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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555702411483,"sku":"9780006550839-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8084a933-6e9e-435e-9b08-bed06657f0dd.jpg?v=1790951772","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780006550839-secondhand-mara-and-dann","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}