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La buena terrorista sigue los pasos de Alice Mellings, una mujer que transforma su casa en el cuartel general de un grupo de radicales de izquierdas que desearían colaborar con el IRA. Mientras Alice lucha por conciliar su ideología con su educación burguesa, sus compañeros encuentran retos inesperados en su activismo por el cambio social y contra el capitalismo. La visión ricamente matizada que aporta Doris Lessing al conflicto entre lo personal y lo político hace de La buena terrorista un retrato fascinante de la vida doméstica y la rebeldía. «Una novela magnífica, de un realismo dinámico y escrupuloso, absolutamente contemporánea." Tite Washington Post Book World

"Huckleberry Finn" is set in Missouri in the 1830's and it is true to its time. The narrator is a 13 year old, semi-literate boy who refers to blacks by the N-word because he has never heard them called anything else. He's been brought up to see blacks as slaves, as property, as something less than human. He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom (Jim escaping slavery and Huck escaping his drunken, abusive father), and is transformed. Huck realizes that Jim is just as human as he is, a loving father who misses his children, a warm, sensitive, generous, compassionate individual. Huck's epiphany arrives when he has to make a decision whether or not to rescue Jim when he is captured and held for return to slavery. In the culture he was born into, stealing a slave is the lowest of crimes and the perpetrator is condemned to eternal damnation. By his decision to risk hell to save Jim, he saves his own soul. Huck has risen above his upbringing to see Jim as a friend, a man, and a fellow human being.