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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.

多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing，1919- ），四十年来被尊为女权偶像人物的英国文学老祖母，与伍尔芙并称“双星”。

数次获诺贝尔文学奖和布克奖提名。

1919年出生于伊朗，幼年度过了一战后有如毒气弹下的生活。

十五岁因眼疾辍学，改以自修方式遍读文学，后来做过电话接线员、保姆、速记员等。

曾两次结婚并离异，1949年携幼子移居英国，全部家当是皮包中的一部小说草稿。该书不久以《野草在歌唱》为题出版，使莱辛一举成名。

1962年，代表作《金色笔记》推出，作为极易引起争议的鸿篇巨制，成为其摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的最充分理由。

1999年，莱辛创作了深受新一代青年读者喜爱的史诗般的预言(寓言)小说《玛拉和丹恩历险记》。