From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" ( Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind\'s beginnings.
Childbirth was controlled through the cycles of the moon, and only female offspring were born--until the unanticipated event that jeopardized the harmony of their close-knit society: the strange, unheralded birth of a boy ..
The story he relates is the little-known saga of the Clefts, an ancient community of women with no knowledge of nor need for men.
In the last years of his life, a Roman senator embarks on one final epic endeavor, a retelling of the history of human creation.
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" ( Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind\'s beginnings
