@booklet {11938, title = {Mara and Dann: An Adventure}, year = {1999}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.

}, month = {1999}, pages = {407 pp.}, publisher = {HarperCollins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara\’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} } @booklet {2726, title = {The Memoirs of a Survivor}, year = {1974}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

}, month = {1974}, publisher = {The Octagon Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013)} }