The Cleft
- ISBN:
- 978-9941-402-82-1
- Category:
- THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
- Pages:
- 238
- Format:
- 14.8x21
- Cover:
- Soft
- Price:
- 8.95
Translated by Rusudan Makhatadze
The novel The Cleft was published shortly before the eminent English writer Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. The narrator is a Roman historian who tells the story of mankind: in the beginning humanity was made up of solely females, who called themselves Clefts. They reproduced asexually until one of them gave birth to a male child dubbed a Monster. In a few words, Lessing’s novel is creating a myth set in a woman-only paradise, a legend about an ancient race of females and their downfall.