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The novel takes place in three of six metaphysical Zones that encircle the planet Shikasta (an allegorical Earth), and concerns two ordained marriages that link the patriarchal Zone Four with the matriarchal Zone Three, and the tribal Zone Five.
The second in Lessing’s Canopus in Argos space fiction series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five shifts from the galactic view of human evolution, history, and the eventual chaotic upheaval on Earth (a.k.a. Shikasta) to an on-the-ground account of two regents—Al-Ith, the queen of Zone Three, and Ben Ata, the king of Zone ...
Aug 19, 2010 · The marriages between zones three, four, and five (as narrated by the chroniclers of zone three) by. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. Publication date. 1980. Topics. Science fiction. Publisher. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
It is the story of the lovely and amiable Queen of the benign Zone Three and of her forced marriage to the soldier King of the martial and hierarchic Zone Four. The military ruler - surprisingly - learns to accept and then to love the ruler of Zone Three and her unfamiliar and distrusted ways. The Queen, in turn, learns to love and need him.
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing. From the book jacket: With this book, the second in the novel-sequence Canopus in Argos: Archives Doris Lessing enters - surprisingly for her - the territory of the legend, of myth.
'The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five' is the second volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet...
The second in Lessing’s Canopus in Argos space fiction series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five shifts from the galactic view of human evolution, history, and the eventual chaotic upheaval on Earth (a.k.a. Shikasta) to an on-the-ground account of two regents—Al-Ith, the queen of Zone Three, and Ben Ata, the king of Zone ...
