Дорис Лессинг получила Нобелевскую премию по литературе с формулировкой: «За исполненное скепсиса, страсти и провидческой силы постижение опыта женщин». Именно об опыте женщин и о цивилизации, выставляющей барьеры природному началу, пойдет речь в книге «Бабушки». Это четыре истории, каждая из которых не похожа на предыдущую. Новелла, давшая название всей книге, — самая, пожалуй, яркая, искренняя, необычная. Что делать женщине, которая любит сына подруги? Природа подсказывает, что надо отдаться чувству, что никогда она не будет так счастлива, как в объятиях этого молодого человека. Но благоразумие заставляет ее отказаться от любви. Кто-то увидит в этой истории архетипическое начало, миф об Эдипе, другие — борьбу природы и социума, третьи — трагедию немолодых женщин, пытающихся ухватить свою долю счастья. Но как бы то ни было, «Бабушки», как и другие три произведения, составляющие сборник, не оставят равнодушным никого. Новелла была экранизирована — в 2013 году вышел фильм режиссера Анн Фонтен «Две матери», который в российском прокате назывался «Тайное влечение».

The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing' with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding. A masterpiece of realism, 'The Grass is Singing' is a superb evocation of Africa's majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a passionate exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

The landmark novel of the Sixties — a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook — the golden notebook — that finally pulls these wayward strands of her life together. Widely regarded as Doris Lessing's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, 'The Golden Notebook' is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.

« Je crois que la colère ramenée des tranchées par mon père s'est emparée de moi très tôt et ne m'a plus jamais quittée. » Parce que le poids de la Première Guerre mondiale a brisé son père, parce que l'émigration en Rhodésie a fait perdre à sa mère le goût de vivre, Doris Lessing a voulu imaginer l'existence de ses parents si l'histoire avait pris un autre cours : la guerre n'a pas eu lieu, l'Angleterre est florissante... et Alfred et Emily ne se sont jamais mariés. À travers ce pari romanesque audacieux, Doris Lessing, à la fois auteur et critique de son oeuvre, nous offre les pages les plus personnelles de son autobiographie.

Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But — a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be strong enough to link people who hate each other now. Perhaps... Going Home is Doris Lessing's account of her first journey back to Africa, the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her emotion and her concern are still invested. Returning to Southern Rhodesia in 1956, she found that her love of Africa had remained as strong as her hatred of the idea of white supremacy espoused by its ruling class. Going Home evokes brilliantly the experience of thepeople, black and white, who have shaped and will shape a beloved country.

The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessings visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

In the unconstrained atmosphere of England in the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt, an upper-middle-class couple, face a frightening vicissitude. As the days' events take a dark and ugly turn nearing apocalyptic intensity, the Lovatts' guarded contentedness and view of the world as a benign place are forever shattered by the violent birth of their fifth child: Ben, monstrous in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, demanding, brutal.