Mara & Dann #1 Mara And Dann - An Adventure

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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0006550835 
ISBN 13
9780006550839 
Category
Science Fiction/Fantaisie  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2019 
Publisher
Pages
407 
Series Name
Abstract
The new novel from one of the greatest twentieth-century writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, last visited in her acclaimed 'Canopus in Argos' quintet of novels in the 1980s. 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... 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 through to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew. 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 only dimly perceive and scarcely know how to value.  
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Descriptif : Roman
Résumé : Doris Lessing imagine la vie sur terre après qu'une interminable période de sécheresse aura décimé des populations entières, forçant les survivants à remonter vers le nord, là où se trouvent les dernières ressources en eau. Comment les hommes reconstruiront-ils le monde, quelles valeurs les animeront une fois qu'un bouleversement climatique planétaire aura fait table rase de notre civilisation technologique occidentale ? L'odyssée de Mura et Dann, deux enfants abandonnés puis pourchassés, qui vont connaître la faim, la soif, la violence, la trahison, mais aussi l'amour, l'initiation et la maturité, est un fantastique voyage dans le temps. C'est aussi l'histoire d'une quête qui passe par la Méditerranée et les mythes fondateurs de notre civilisation. Par le biais de cette fiction, Doris Lessing s'adresse aux hommes et aux femmes d'aujourd'hui soucieux de l'avenir de l'humanité. Et à tous les amateurs de romans d'aventure et d'imagination.  
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