# The Memoirs of a Survivor

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- Book: [The Memoirs of a Survivor](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing/the-memoirs-of-a-survivor) ([The Memoirs of a Survivor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing/the-memoirs-of-a-survivor.md))
- Authors: [Doris Lessing](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-9475-759-9
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1988-04-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old...