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Mara and Dann (Mara and Dann #1)

Doris Lessing

Paperback | Pages: 407 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 1571 Users | 160 Reviews

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Title	:	Mara and Dann (Mara and Dann #1)
Author	:	Doris Lessing
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 407 pages
Published	:	December 22nd 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Fantasy

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Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving climate and menacing animals as by a hostile community of Rock People. Eventually they join the great human migration North, away from the drought that is turning the southern land to dust, and in search of a place with enough water and food to support human life. Traveling across the continent, the siblings enter cities rife with crime, power struggles, and corruption, learning as much about human nature as about how societies function. With a clear-eyed vision of the human condition, Mara and Dann is imaginative fiction at its best.

Mention Books During Mara and Dann (Mara and Dann #1)

Original Title:	Mara and Dann: An Adventure
ISBN:	006093056X (ISBN13: 9780060930561)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mara and Dann #1

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Ratings: 3.85 From 1571 Users | 160 Reviews

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Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann was published several years ago; I wrote this review in 2008. Lately I've become obsessed with the book, thinking about it every time I hear about floods in Rhode Island unseen for 200 years; or see pictures on TV of high school kids in the Midwest piling up sandbags to hold back the river. Do people recognize what is happening? We just go on with our daily lives, oblivious to the upheavals all around us. At least read this book: Doris Lessing is a seer, and Mara

This is science fiction story but I could not stop reading between lines. It was first published in 1999, however, we are currently living many main subjects of the book, including climate change, human migration, and wars among others. It takes a bit to get into the story, but the book it is worthy to read. On the other hand, I felt that the end is somehow disappointed.

A nightmarish but plausible dystopian vision that was written nearly twenty years ago but captures many of our current anxieties regarding climate change and the potential collapse of global civilization. Over the first half of the book there is a near constant atmosphere of menace and suspense and the narrative chugs along nicely. It becomes almost comically repetitive after the mid-way point, as the siblings encounter an endless succession of shifty innkeepers and their childhood nemesis leaps

I cannot stand the way this book is written. I don't know if this is1) Lessing's regular style2) Because this book centers on children3) Because it's supposed to feel like a folktaleor some combination of the above, but whatever the reason, it grates on me like you wouldn't believe. Like so, pages 31-32:Suck, suck, suck. The sound was driving Mara quite wild with dislike of it, an irritation that made her want to hit her little brother, and she was ashamed of herself and began to cry. She had

Imaginative. Did not quite get my head around her style; although I much liked the way she used simple language to refer to things for which we have other words, as if language itself has weathered off in the passing of time. Perhaps this has to do with the fact many of the things are described as the children see it (at the start of the novel). Or both; but I was not able to see a totally clear pattern. The distopic story is an instrument to show all the bad there is in human nature. However,

3.5. An intriguing story about a time thousands of years from now after another ice age. Mara and Dann are brother and sister taken from their home at an early age and must fight for survival. I think this could have used a bit more editing. And I'm not sure if it was because it was the Kindle edition, but the chapters were too long in some instances and could have been broken up better.

That was so much fun. I really like a good climate collapse story and combined with the tale of two orphans whose don't quite know who they are or why they are important drives the story along nicely. I thought the references to the past were worked in nicely and I loved that Lessing talked about the affect gender had on how Mara and Dann differently experienced their journey.