A Ripple from the Storm by Doris Lessing

A Ripple from the Storm by Doris Lessing

The third book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winners Children of Violence series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.

‘I read the “Children of Violence” novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful wayAnd it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do.’ Barbara Kingsolver

‘The “Children of Violence” series gives an astounding compression of a total, coherent vision, as if Doris Lessing knew all along where it would end.’ The Times

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

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ISBN 13	9780586090008
ISBN 10	0586090002
Title	A Ripple from the Storm
Author	Doris Lessing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1993-11-15
Number of pages	336
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