A novel that plunges the reader into the depths of a disturbed psyche and madness. The heroine—a charming woman of Balzac’s age—finds herself torn away from her familiar life.
British writer Doris Lessing is the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. She has a special female viewpoint that allows her to write precisely—and at the same time with a certain share of skepticism—about the fragmentation of the modern world.