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African Laughter

By Doris Lessing

Release : 2009-06-30

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Essays, Travel & Adventure, Travel in Africa, History, World History, Literary Criticism, Literary Anthologies, Nonfiction, Social Science, Society, Literary Bios & Memoirs

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A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." — New York Times Book Review

A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.

African Laughter

By Doris Lessing

Release : 2009-06-30

Genre : Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Fiction & Literature, Essays, Travel & Adventure, Travel in Africa, History, World History, Literary Criticism, Literary Anthologies, Nonfiction, Social Science, Society, Literary Bios & Memoirs

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." — New York Times Book Review

A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.

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