by Doris Lessing · Mondadori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439708780
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«Risa africana» is a memoir by Doris Lessing, published by Mondadori in paperback (502 pages, in Spanish).
Doris Lessing brings together here her four visits to Zimbabwe (1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992), the country where she lived from childhood until the age of thirty, when it was called Southern Rhodesia. Blending memory, history and narrative, the author portrays the country's political and social reality, its contradictions, landscapes and people.
Published in 2002 in the Mitos Voces collection, with a prologue by the author and translation by Marta Pessarrodona. Original title: «African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe» (1992).
For readers of memoirs, travel literature and African history, and for those who want to discover Doris Lessing's view of Zimbabwe.
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).
