Children of violence
| Title | Children of violence
The four-gated city |
|---|---|
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| Publication | Grafton |
| Size | 668p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 0586036202 |
| Topics |
English fiction--Women English fiction--Biographical English fiction--Dystopian |
| Notes | ‘They all carry with them a gentle strong authority. They don't have to be shielded from the knowledge of what the human race is in this century – they know it. These seven children are our – but we have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians.’ The ‘Children of Violence’ series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Martha, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Colridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new ‘children of violence’, grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering towards nuclear disaster. |
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