Books &Life &Literature Entropy | 15 Dec 2007
A hunger for books
Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the ‘inanities’ of the internet It seems relatively lengthy to read on screen, however [...]