London Observed
Author: Doris Lessing
Translator: Sook Seo
Publisher: Minumsa
306 pages | 225*132mm
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About This Book
Doris Lessing, author of this book, won the 2007 Noble Prize for
literature.
'During that first year in England, I had a vision of London I cannot
recall now...it was a nightmare city that I lived in for a year. Then,
one evening, walking across the park, the light welded buildings, trees
and scarlet buses into something familiar and beautiful, and I knew
myself to be at home.'
Doris Lessing wrote those words in 1957, and since then she has
continued to observe both London and its inhabitants with the shrewd,
sensitive eye of an artist. Representing over three decades of fine
writing, London Observed. Stories and Sketches contains eighteen perfect
pen-portraits of Londoners and their city.
Explicit tenderness is a hallmark of many of these tales. Here's art
holding up a mirror to life to London, and declaring a vision
untarnished, clear and steady.' - New Statesman Society
'Lessing maintains the nice tension between compassion and rather brutal
detachment that is characteristic of her best work.' - Independent on
Sunday
'Lessing's vision of London is a brilliant diorama of comedy, tragedy
and squalor, lifted by moments of true delight.' - Cosmopolitan
'This collection is full of fine things.' - The Times
'These are intriguing, potent, witty and sometimes macabre tales.' -
Time Out
'She exercises the faculty of observation with an acuity and percipience
shared by few other living writers.' - Harpers & Queen
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