The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
Al-Ith, queen of a mild and inward country, is ordered by the unseen Providers to marry the soldier king of the flat militarised land below hers, and neither of them is told why. The marriage is an instruction rather than a match, and what it alters runs outward through both populations before it reaches the horse tribes higher up the mountain. Second of the Canopus in Argos sequence, written by Lessing as a deliberate fable about the sexes.
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- companion to ↑ Shikasta
- ↓ The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
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