Collected African Stories: Vol.1: This Was the Old Chief's Country - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 058604602X ISBN 13: 9780586046029

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1979

Synopsis

An African story collection

About this title

From the Publisher:

Includes a new, previously uncollected story.

'In story after story, Doris Lessing portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races. In "The Second Hut", a Rhodesian farmer is torn with anxiety and guilt about employing a poor Boer assistant with ni ' me children because of the hostility between Boer and native workers. One brings away a sense, of the sheer human impossibility of South Africa, as a place fit only for habitation by the imagination of exiles and of children. All else seems lost, betrayed and spoiled, except the glare of the sun, the dust, the boulders. An impressive collection.' - Gabriel Pearson, Daily Telegraph

'Doris Lessing's sense of setting is so immediate, the touch and taste of her continent is so strong, that Africa seems to become the universe.' - Newsweek

About the Author:

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing' was published in 1950, and since then her international reputation has flourished. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Summer Before the Dark', and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. Her most recent works include 'Love, Again' and two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin', and 'Walking in the Shade'.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 058604602X
• ISBN 13: 9780586046029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400