Mara and Dann: An Adventure Paperback - 2000
by Doris Lessing
A brilliantly imagined novel of fantasy and adventure set in a distant, drought-filled future, written by the renowned author of "Love, Again" and "The Golden Notebook."
Summary
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"The scene that the child, then the girl, then the young woman tried so hard to remember was clear enough in its beginnings."
From the rear cover
Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, Mara and Dann is imaginative fiction at its best.
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- Title Mara and Dann: An Adventure
- Author Doris Lessing
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 1, 2000
- ISBN 9780060930561 / 006093056X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.54 x 1.03 in (20.07 x 14.07 x 2.62 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, Fantastic fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98030782
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Science, 06/05/2009, Page 1269
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