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编辑推荐 2007年诺贝尔文学奖得主多丽丝·莱辛的代表性力作《玛拉和丹恩历险记》一部预言未来的《奥德赛》史诗，人类最终能否找到回家的路？她以史诗般的女性经历，以怀疑、热情与想象的力量来审视一个分裂的文明。　　　——诺贝尔委员会一切文明尽成废墟后，唯有人性中爱的力量支持我们继续前行。“我受到了震撼，不得不创作了这部小说。”　　　——多丽丝·莱辛 作者简介 作者：(英)多丽丝·莱辛 译者：苗争芝 陈颖多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing，1919- ） 四十年来被尊为女权偶像人物的英国文学老祖母，与伍尔芙并称“双星”。数次获诺贝尔文学奖和布克奖提名。1919年出生于伊朗，幼年度过了一战后有如毒气弹下的生活。十五岁因眼疾辍学，改以自修方式遍读文学，后来做过电话接线员、保姆、速记员等。曾两次结婚并离异，1949年携幼子移居英国，全部家当是皮包中的一部小说草稿。该书不久以《野草在歌唱》为题出版，使莱辛一举成名。1962年，代表作《金色笔记》推出，作为极易引起争议的鸿篇巨制，成为其摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的最充分理由。1999年，莱辛创作了深受新一代青年读者喜爱的史诗般的预言(寓言)小说《玛拉和丹恩历险记》。 ~ 多丽丝?莱辛 (Lessing Doris May) (作者) 出版日期: 2006年6月19日 出版社: HarperPerennial (2006年6月19日) 平装: 336页 A fascinating novel of love and ecology from one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers. Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her Canopus in Argos quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in Mara and Dann, of which this is a sequel, in 1999. The earths climate has changed -- it is colder than ever before -- and Dann, four in the first book, is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. Doris Lessings novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that will eventually lead to the discovery of a secret library. From Publishers WeeklyThis sequel to Lessings futuristic novel Mara and Dann continues the saga of Dann, the refugee boy prince of the Mahondi, who searched with his older sister Mara for habitable land on a planet Earth beset by a new ice age. Several characters from that novel reappear, including Griot, a soldier who served under Dann, but Mara has died in childbirth. Grief deafens General Dann to the pleas of those who believe he alone can save civilization from the warring chaos of displaced populations. Lessings long literary career includes much science fiction (the Canopus in Argos series), but this dystopia, underscored by its reluctant heros existential dilemma—why go on just to go on?—resembles a classical myth, albeit one with no