The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

'This is an unsettling but compelling novel - like a nihilistic version of The Lord of the Rings with a deeply flawed, Shakespearean tragic hero at its centre.' Financial Times

'Lessing pierces the heart with the half quotations that Dann's scribes scribble down as the books fall to dust in their hands...Lessing has much wisdom to impart although she is astute enough not to preach but to pose some unsettling questions.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times

'It is so well done, written with such zest, imagination, sympathy and intelligence, that my prejudice against the sort of novel it is was soon disarmed...a piece of compelling narrative, wonderfully imagined.' Alan Massie, Spectator

'Lessing engages the reader constantly...the plot is complicated, deliciously so...full of unobtrusive wisdom, the book is restless with curiosity and shrewd in its reading of human nature.' Scotsman

'Lessing's new novel is as unsettling as anything she has ever written.' Independent

'This visionary novel from one of the distinguished writers of the past 60 years is, fundamentally, an impassioned warning: dystopia could be the future.' Daily Mail

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.