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by Doris Lessing · LUMEN · tapa dura · 264 pages
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En 'La Grieta', Doris Lessing nos transporta a un mundo primigenio donde una comunidad de mujeres concibe sin necesidad de varones, atribuyendo la fertilidad a la luna o al mar. La historia sigue a una de estas mujeres que, al aventurarse más allá de su costa, descubre a los hombres, seres desconocidos que desafían su comprensión del mundo. A través de la mirada de un patricio romano, Lessing explora los orígenes de la convivencia humana, los primeros encuentros, conflictos y el despertar del deseo, culminando en el gesto de ternura que nos define como seres humanos. Con su característico estilo delicado e irónico, la autora nos invita a reflexionar sobre la aventura de la vida y las relaciones que nos unen.

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).