by Doris Lessing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466311090
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«El sueño más dulce» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (624 pages, in Spanish).
The work is a critical portrait of the sixties and of the ideologies that marked the following decades. Through a wide gallery of characters, the narrative interweaves family life with politics, activism and the African experience after decolonisation, and shows how collective and personal ideals are transformed over time.
Originally published in English as The Sweetest Dream (2001); this Spanish edition is from 2003. Doris Lessing won the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2001 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
A suitable read for book clubs and for those seeking contemporary fiction by an award-winning British author.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
