The Cleft
by Doris Lessing 2020-08-24 20:33:43
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From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind''s beginnings. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator retells the hist... Read more

From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind''s beginnings.

In the last years of his life, a Roman senator retells the history of human creation and reveals the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child—a boy—the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy.

In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.

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  • 7.9x5.3x0.7inches
  • 260
  • Harper Perennial
  • January 1, 2008
  • English
  • 9780060834876
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (22 Oct 1919 – 17 Nov 2013) was a British- Rhodesian novelist. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Vi...
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