{"product_id":"9780006550839","title":"Mara and Dann","description":"\u003cp\u003eA visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, and unbearably dry and hot in the south. Mara, who is seven, and her four-year-old brother Dann find themselves somewhere very strange, not home …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are taken in by a kindly, grandmotherly woman, but this new life is hard: hunger, dirt, thirst and danger are the children’s constant companions. Drought and fire carry off their adoptive home and force them to set off northward into the unknown, to experience a series of adventures that bring them to an altogether altered world, where they can start to learn and build anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoris Lessing has written a compelling, troubling and entertaining novel that, through the remarkable odyssey of a brother and sister living in the imagined future, manages to tell us a great deal about the present we perceive only dimly and scarcely know how to value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doris Lessing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895256240277,"sku":"9780006550839","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780006550839_3f7fd0aa-6ab6-47e9-a0f4-fb9bff36572a.jpg?v=1776888158","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780006550839","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}