The Memoirs of a Survivor

The Memoirs of a Survivor

Doris Lessing

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1974

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In the ruined, barbaric world of the near future, a lone woman cares for a deserted child and surveys her city's disintegration, the hordes of safety-seeking people, and her own painful adolescence, childhood, and infancy.
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Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 1919–2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is…

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