The Cleft

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ISBN 10: 0007250371 / ISBN 13: 9780007250370

Published by - -, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cleft
• Publisher: - -
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007250371
• ISBN 13: 9780007250370
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal 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.

About the Author

Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time. She lives in north London.