Born in 1919 in what is now known as Iran to British parents, Doris Lessing relocated to Zimbabwe at age 6 and until 13, she was educated in a convent. The author of this amazing tome is almost as interesting as her work. Each part is revisited, overlapping with one another, and the whole thing is a reading experience like no other. The Golden Notebook is that unicorn in literature that is recognized as one of a kind, or as the Oxford Companion to English Literature terms it, "inner space fiction." It's a novel in four parts, (or is it one?) that reflect the narrator’s feelings about communism, and include a novel within a novel, a personal diary, and then the final depiction wherein the previous three become one, glorious, Golden Notebook. Rarely can a work be called “unique” and truly earn that qualifier.
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