The Sirian Experiments

В сборник "Повести", изданный на русском языке в 1958 году, вошли 4 "африканские", или антиколониальные, повести Дорис Лессинг: "Муравейник", "Эльдорадо", "Голод" и "Джордж-«Леопард»". Здесь, как и в знаменитом романе "Трава поёт", показаны трагедии, неизбежные, когда европейцы, со своими нравами и правилами, вторгаются в жизнь коренного населения Африки.

Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.

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The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's classic first novel.

It is the story of the murder of a poor white woman by her black houseboy. It is a portrait of the woman's marriage to a luckless farmer, a union doomed to failure before they had even met. And it is an evocation of the country in which they lived – Rhodesia.

In The Grass Is Singing, the harsh, majestic beauty and the remorseless social values of white Southern Africa come violently, brilliantly to life.

'Original and striking… full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognized' – NEW STATESMAN

'A first novel of astonishing accomplishment' – DAILYTELEGRAPH

Shikasta is the first of a series of novels with the overall title Canopus in Argos: Archives. The second will be The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five. The third will be The Sirian Experiments.

В сборник «Повести», изданный на русском языке в 1958 году, вошли 4 «африканские», или антиколониальные, повести Дорис Лессинг: «Муравейник», «Эльдорадо», «Голод» и «Джордж „Леопард“». Здесь, как и в знаменитом романе «Трава поёт», показаны трагедии, неизбежные, когда европейцы, со своими нравами и правилами, вторгаются в жизнь коренного населения Африки.

In a London squat, a band of bourgeois revolutionaries unite in their loathing for the waste and cruelty they see in the world around them. But soon they become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence.

Only Alice, motherly, practical and determined, seems capable of organising anything. She likes to be on the battlefront: picketing, being bound over and spray-painting slogans. But her enthusiasm is also easy to exploit and she soon becomes ideal fodder for the group's more dangerous and potent cause. When their naive radical. fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, they realise that their lives will never be the same again.