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The Sweetest Dream is a 2001 novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the 1960s leading up to the 1980s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe .
Jan 1, 2001 · Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.
The Sweetest Dream. This story of a family, spanning most of the twentieth century, has its fulcrum in the Sixties, that contradictory and embattled decade about which argument becomes louder every day.
Feb 2, 2021 · The sweetest dream. by. Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013. Publication date. 2001. Topics. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, British -- South Africa -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction, South Africa -- Fiction. Publisher.
Aug 29, 2013 · Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels. It’s the morning of the 1960s and it’s...
“[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel”—San Francisco ChronicleFrances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the youthful crew assembled around her hospitable table—her two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends and new friends fresh off the street.
Feb 5, 2002 · The motivating power of dream and the political price of illusions are the subject of Doris Lessing's extended family saga, The Sweetest Dream.
