by Doris Lessing · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466602938
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«Mara y Dann» is the science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (608 pages, in Spanish).
In a remote future, the north is buried under ice and the south is drying up from drought. Mara and her little brother Dann, two Mahondi children snatched from their home, join the migration north in search of water and food. Along the way, Mara discovers ruins of vanished civilizations and seeks answers about her origins.
The original work is «Mara and Dann»; this Spanish edition, published in 2007, is translated from English by María José Díez and Diego Friera.
For readers interested in science 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).
