by Doris Lessing · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426416674
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«La grieta» is the science fiction and speculative fiction novel by Doris Lessing, published by Lumen in hardcover (264 pages, in Spanish).
On a primeval coast, a community of women conceives without knowing males and attributes their fertility to the moon or the sea. When one of them discovers strange beings, similar but with smooth chests, the first encounters between the sexes begin. A Roman patrician reconstructs those disjointed testimonies and imagines how our ancestors learned to live together: the fights, the reproaches, the desire, and the first gesture of tenderness that defined humanity. With delicacy and irony, Lessing explores the origin of coexistence between men and women.
Novel originally published as «The Cleft» in 2007, translated into Spanish by Paula Kuffer. Included in Lumen's Narrativa collection and in the Biblioteca Doris Lessing series.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and science fiction interested in origin myths, feminism, and speculative narrative with historical background.
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).
