Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her Canopus in Argos quintet of novels in the 1980s, and in âMara and Dannâ, to which this is a sequel, in 1999.
This is a collection of stories about Africa which evoke the people and continent, drawn from the author's experiences as a child in Southern Rhodesia.
An unidentified man is admitted to a London hospital after he is found wandering on the Embankment. Later identified as a Cambridge lecturer, he remains oblivious to his past life. This novel develops the idea that mental illness can be a liberating exper...