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The Cleft
The Cleft: A Novel | Doris Lessing
4 posts | 6 read | 2 to read
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankinds beginnings. In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation. The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men. Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were bornuntil the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a boy.
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Tove_Reads
Tove_Reads
The Cleft: A Novel | Doris Lessing
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It‘s hard to review this book. It has a low score on GR. I understand that. This is an alternative history of Romans. It‘s about an ancient female cult, The Cleft. A society without men. Then the first son is born... Quick read. I am certain there are many people out there enjoying this book. 3- stars

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Tove_Reads
The Cleft: A Novel | Doris Lessing
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Tove_Reads
The Cleft: A Novel | Doris Lessing
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Decided it was time for me to hoard paper as well. Pretty sure libraries will close any day now 😭

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HannahKate
HannahKate
The Cleft: A Novel | Doris Lessing
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Weird but interesting book retelling the story of “the Clefts”: an ancient coastal community of women who don‘t need men (even to reproduce - they only produce girls). Enter a “malformed” child (a boy) followed by even more boys, and the Clefts have to manage this seeming “threat”...

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