NF (1957) Going Home (32 page)

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Authors: Doris Lessing

Tags: #Non Fiction. Nobel Prize Winner

ALSO BY DORIS LESSING

NOVELS

The Grass Is Singing

The Golden Notebook

Briefing for a Descent into Hell

The Summer Before the Dark

The Memoirs of a Survivor

The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor If the Old Could…

The Good Terrorist

The Fifth Child

Love, Again


CANOPUS IN ARGOS: ARCHIVES” SERIES

Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta

The Marriages Between Zones

Three, Four and Five

The Sirian Experiments

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire


CHILDREN OF VIOLENCE” SERIES

Martha Quest

A Proper Marriage

A Ripple From the Storm

Landlocked

The Four-Gated City

SHORT STORIES

This Was the Old Chief’s Country

The Habit of Loving

A Man and Two Women

The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories

Stories

African Stories

The Real Thing: Stories and Sketches

OPERA

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
(Music by Philip Glass)

POETRY

Fourteen Poems

NONFICTION

In Pursuit of the English

Particularly Cats

A Small Personal Voice

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

The Wind Blows Away Our Words

Particularly Cats…And Rufus

African Laughter

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Under My Skin

The Doris Lessing Reader

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Excerpt from
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton is reprinted with the permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. Copyright © 1948 by Alan Paton; copyright renewed © 1976 by Alan Paton.

GOING HOME
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Dagga is a hemp drug.

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Two of the men I talked to have since been deported from Southern Rhodesia to Nyasaland.

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Sir Roy has now become Prime Minister of the Federation, Lord Malvern having retired.

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