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Also by Doris Lessing:

Alfred and Emily, August 2008
Hardcover
The Cleft, August 2007
Hardcover
The Golden Notebook, February 1999
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Fifth Child, May 1989
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THE CLEFT
By: Doris Lessing

HarperCollins
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
ISBN: 0060834862
EAN: 9780060834869
Hardcover
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Fiction

In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child—a boy—the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy.

In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.

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