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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.

多麗絲·萊辛（Doris Lessing，1919- ），四十年來被尊為女權偶像人物的英國文學老祖母，與伍爾芙並稱“雙星”。

數次獲諾貝爾文學奬和布剋奬提名。

1919年齣生於伊朗，幼年度過瞭一戰後有如毒氣彈下的生活。

十五歲因眼疾輟學，改以自修方式遍讀文學，後來做過電話接綫員、保姆、速記員等。

曾兩次結婚並離異，1949年攜幼子移居英國，全部傢當是皮包中的一部小說草稿。該書不久以《野草在歌唱》為題齣版，使萊辛一舉成名。

1962年，代錶作《金色筆記》推齣，作為極易引起爭議的鴻篇巨製，成為其摘得諾貝爾奬桂冠的最充分理由。

1999年，萊辛創作瞭深受新一代青年讀者喜愛的史詩般的預言(寓言)小說《瑪拉和丹恩曆險記》。