London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002256398 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with minor bumping to corners. SIGNED and dated 6th April 1999 by AUTHOR and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing; A New Ice age thousands of years in the future has buried the northern hemisphere in ice and snow. At the southern end of the continent of Ifrik, young siblings Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of climate, menacing animals and the hostile Rock People. They head North, but what will they find? ; 8vo ; Signed by Author .

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Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, Mara and Dann is imaginative fiction at its best.

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14339
Title: Mara And Dann - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Lessing, Doris
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0002256398
ISBN 13: 9780002256391
Publisher: Flamingo
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1999
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Novel Novels
Bookseller catalogs: Legendary Authors / Lessing, Doris;

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