The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
- 作者:Doris May,Lessing
- 出版社:Harpercollins
- 出版日期:2005-01-01
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:0060530111
- ISBN13:9780060530112
- 裝訂:平裝 / 13.3 x 20.3 x 1.9 cm / 普通級
Doris Lessing, Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature
In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.