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The Memoirs of a Survivor

Name: The Memoirs of a Survivor
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ISBN: 978-0-00-649325-9

Lessing Doris May

Жанр Современная проза

Год 2011

ISBN: 978-0-00-649325-9

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Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwin-dling. From her window a middle-aged woman watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to the countryside, gangs of children roaming the streets. One day, a young girl, Emily, is brought to her house by a stranger and left in her care. A strange, precocious adolescent, drawn to the tribal streetlife and its barbaric rituals, Emily is unafraid of the harsh world outside, while our narrator retreats into her own hidden world where reality fades and the past is revisited...

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