The Cleft: A Novel

The Cleft: A Novel
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
272
ISBN
 
0060834870:9780060834876
Издатель
 
HarperPerennial
Категория
 
Nobel Prize

Содержание:

Книга 1, Афоризмы житейской мудрости, Книга 2, Письма к сыну, Книга 3, Вечный человек

Описание:

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 embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born—until the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a boy.

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