by Doris Lessing · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722339384
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«A Fenda» is the fantasy novel by Doris Lessing, published by Editorial Presença in 2008 in paperback (392 pages, in Portuguese).
In a prehistoric community made up only of women who live without knowing men or needing them, the birth of a male baby breaks the balance of that almost idyllic world. Doris Lessing explores the relations between the sexes and human ambition, vulnerability and incompleteness, with a mythical tone of disconcerting beauty.
Work originally published as «The Cleft» in 2007; this Portuguese edition appeared in April 2008 and its cover indicates it is the 2nd edition.
For readers interested in speculative fiction with a feminist approach and in the narrative of Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
