Doris Lessing s two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle , a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap , set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessings shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well as a critical introduction and a selection of primary source material, such as excerpts from interviews with Doris Lessing, short fiction by contemporary African women writers, reviews, and historical documents focussing on race and socio-economic conditions in the former Southern Rhodesia.