Nobel Laureate's Zimbabwe Returns
African Laughter
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits to her homeland, Zimbabwe, a country from which she had been banned for twenty-five years for her opposition to the government of what was then white Southern Rhodesia.
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About the book
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, this work vividly mingles memory and reportage as Lessing pays passionate and profound testament to an extraordinary country, its landscape, people and unquenchable spirit. African Laughter is both a shrewd and perceptive portrait of a modern African state emerging from its bloody and terrible colonial history, and a candid and moving insight into the mind of one of the century's finest writers.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers
