{"product_id":"the-four-gated-city-children-of-violence-5-0060976675","title":"The Four-Gated City (Children of Violence, 5)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0060976675\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.\" - Barbara KingsolverThe Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer.In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51598890959136,"sku":"NEW0060976675","price":17.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/712W5IGDRLL.jpg?v=1778455234","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-four-gated-city-children-of-violence-5-0060976675","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}