Doris Lessing
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"Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with...
2) The cleft
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A Roman senator sets out to set the record straight about the origins of the human race and the battle of the sexes, telling of the Clefts, a tribe of women who lived without men, giving birth to only female children conceived with the help of a fertilizing wind or wave, until one day a male child is born.