by Doris Lessing · Destino CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497100960
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Històries de Londres» is Doris Lessing's collection of short stories, published by Destino CAT in 2007 in paperback (296 pages, in Catalan).
The stories explore life in London and human relationships: a couple argues in a café on Hampstead Heath, an independent woman receives her ex-husband, and an encounter in Regent's Park brings about a reconciliation between mother and daughter. Lessing portrays emotional tensions and social conventions with lucidity.
Originally published as London Observed, the Catalan translation is by Carme Geronès Planagumà and Carles Urritz Geli. Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and short stories, as well as for those who want to approach Doris Lessing's urban narrative in Catalan.
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).
