African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0002550199 / ISBN 13: 9780002550192

Published by HarperCollins, 1992

About this Item

1992. First Edition. hardcover. From the library of Michael Viney. Fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear. Internally lightly toned, spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy. . . . .

Seller Inventory # KSG0040823

Bibliographic Details

• Title: African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002550199
• ISBN 13: 9780002550192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white Southern Rhodesia. Mingling memory and reportage in vivid detail, Doris Lessing pays passionate and profound testament to an extraordinary country, its landscape, people and unquenchable spirit. ‘African Laughter’ is both a shrewd and perceptive protrait of a modern African state emerging from its bloody and terrible colonial history, and a candid and moving insight into the mind of one of this century’s finest writers.

About the Author

Doris Lessing was the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature and 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 two volumes of autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade', her most recent novel is 'The Cleft'.