African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country."—New York Times Book Review

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant ...[and] captures the contradictions of a young country."—New York Times Book Review

"Doris Lessing is the kind of writer who has followers, not just readers," Lesley Hazleton once observed. But Lessing, whose novel The Golden Notebook was embraced as a feminist icon, has seldom told her followers exactly what they wanted to hear.