The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
Doris Lessing2003

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With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.


The Grandmothers
Two women, close friends, fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, promising a respectable old age.


Victoria and the Staveneys
A poor black girl has a baby with the son of a liberal middle-class family and finds that her little girl is slowly being absorbed into the world of white privilege and becoming estranged from her.


The Reason for It
Certain to appeal to fans of Shikasta and Memoirs of a Survivor, it describes the birth, flourishing, and decline of a culture long, long ago, but with many modern echoes.

A Love Child
A soldier in World War II, during the dangerous voyage to India around the Cape, falls in love on shore leave and remains convinced that a love child resulted from the wartime romance.

Titre original : The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels (2003)

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2004 Editions Flamingo

Anglaise Langue anglaise | 320 pages

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  • CleoB Le 27 Mars 2021 à 08:29
    J'ai admiré la liberté de ces femmes, leur gourmandise, mais dans une époque où on parle de plus en plus d’emprise, j’ai trouvé ces grands-mères dérangeantes.

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