{"product_id":"9780006550839","title":"Mara and Dann","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Lessing, Doris\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 3 April 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers (Flamingo) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 416 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 26 | 340g\u003cp\u003eA visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Doris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lessing, Doris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666392289464,"sku":"9780006550839","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780006550839.jpg?v=1734743129","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780006550839","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}