Аннотация
Doris Lessing
Ben, in the World
(The Sequel to The Fifth Child)
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Author's Notes
'The Cages' were described to me in miserable detail ten years ago by someone who had seen them in a research institute in London. Here they are set in Brazil, because of the exigencies of the plot, but I am sure no such unpleasant phenomenon exists in Brazil.
The authorities have cleared the gangs of criminal children from the streets of the centre of Rio. They are no longer permitted to annoy tourists.
Acknowledgments
My grateful thanks, as always, to my agent Jo...
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