Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1981.
Includes a reading group guide.
Short stories.
Contents
The black Madonna -- The trinket box -- The pig -- Traitors -- The old Chief Mshlanga -- A sunrise on the Veld -- No witchcraft for sale -- The second hut -- The nuisance -- The De Wets come to Kloof Grange -- Little Tembi -- Old John's place -- "Leopard" George -- Winter in July -- A home for the highland cattle -- Eldorado -- The antheap -- Hunger -- The words he said -- Lucy Grange -- A mild attack of locusts -- Flavours of exile -- Getting off the altitude -- A road to the big city -- Flight -- Plants and girls -- The sun between their feet -- A letter from home -- The new man -- The story of two dogs -- The story of a non-marrying man -- Spies I have known.
Summary
This is Doris Lessing s Africa where she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.
