| Landlocked | |
| Author: | Doris Lessing |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | MacGibbon & Kee |
| Published: | 1965 |
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| Preceded By: | A Ripple from the Storm |
| Followed By: | The Four-Gated City |
| Series: | Children of Violence |
Landlocked (1965) is the fourth novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, Children of Violence. The first volume is Martha Quest (1952), and the others are, A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age".[1]
This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".[2]