{"product_id":"mara-and-dann-by-doris-lessing","title":"Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing","description":"\u003cp\u003eA visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718672584778,"sku":"5870u","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5870u_789e1565-6f88-4f7f-a580-5b346460f7a4.jpg?v=1769486054","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/mara-and-dann-by-doris-lessing","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}