The experiences of two women provide the framework for an intense literary study of liberated womanhood, in a new edition - which includes an author biography and publication history - of a novel originally published in 1962.

Lessing''s powerful and liberating novel raised the consciousness of a generation, and continues to resonate through the world today. Its central character, Anna, is a writer, the author of one very successful novel, who keeps four notebooks. In one with a black cover she reviews the experiences of her younger years in Africa. A red one records her political life, and growing disillusionment with Communism. In a yellow one Anna writes a novel in which the heroine relives parts of her own experience. And a blue one serves as her personal diary. In love with a macho American writer, threatened with insanity, and fragmented by her own writings, Anna finally gathers the threads of all four journals in a golden notebook.

"The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decades; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true."

Autorentext

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

Klappentext

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Zusammenfassung

"The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." — New York Times Book Review

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, The Golden Notebook retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.