The Cleft
| Title | The Cleft |
| Year for Search | 2007 |
| Authors | Lessing, Doris [May](1919-2013) |
| Date Published | 2007 |
| Publisher | Fourth Estate |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The English female author (1919-2013) was born in Persia, now Iran, and lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for many years. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. |
| Full Text | 2007 Lessing, Doris [May] (1919-2013). The Cleft. London: Fourth Estate. PSt Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other. The English female author was born in Persia, now Iran, and lived in what was then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for many years. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. |
