This Was the Old Chief's Country

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Hardback re-issue of this classic collection of stories This is the first volume of Doris Lessing's Collected African Stories. A classic work of twentieth-century literature. 'In story after story, Doris Lessing portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races. One brings away a sense of the sheer human impossibility of South Africa, as a place fit only for habitation by the imagination of exiles and of children. All else seems lost, betrayed and spoiled, except the glare of the sun, the dust, the boulders. An impressive collection.' Daily Telegraph