by Doris Lessing · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429760620
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«La Clivella» is the novel by Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature 2007, published by Edicions 62 in hardback (216 pages, in Catalan).
An old Roman senator, at the end of his life, tries to rewrite the creation of humanity and reconstructs the story of the Clivellas, a community of women living in a wild, isolated seaside place. The Clivellas do not know men, control births with the phases of the moon and only have daughters; the unexpected arrival of a boy breaks the group's harmony.
Belongs to the El Balancí collection (no. 575). Catalan translation by Marta Pera.
Work aimed at the general public, for readers interested in contemporary fiction and in Doris Lessing's narrative.
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).
