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Roman izvestnoĭ angliĭskoĭ pisatelʹnit͡sy, laureata Nobelevskoĭ premii Doris Lessing rasskazyvaet o drevneĭ zhenskoĭ obshchine, sushchestvovavsheĭ v pribrezhnoĭ polose Ėdema. Zhenshchiny ėtoĭ obshchiny ne znali muzhchin i v nikh ne nuzhdalisʹ. Detorozhdenie upravli͡alosʹ lunnym t͡siklom, rozhali oni iskli͡uchitelʹno devochek. I vot poi͡avlenie na svet strannogo rebenka - malʹchika - ugrozhaet razrushitʹ garmonii͡u ikh sushchestvovanii͡a…

The novel by the famous English writer, Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing tells about an ancient women's community that existed in the coastal strip of Eden. The women of this community did not know men and did not need them. Childbirth was controlled by the lunar cycle, they gave birth exclusively to girls. And now the birth of a strange child — a boy — threatens to destroy the harmony of their existence.…