Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing

There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel. -- New York Times

Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.

Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm works its slow poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.

Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780435121297
ISBN 10	0435121294
Titel	Grass is Singing
Autor	Doris Lessing
Serie	New Windmills
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Heinemann Educational Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1986-04-30
Seitenanzahl	256
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