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The Grass Is Singing
[Paperback - 2013]
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Category: Fiction
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Publisher: Fourth Estate Uk | ISBN: 9780007498802 | Pages: 0
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The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.


Set in Rhodesia, The Grass is Singing tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding.


A masterpiece of realism, The Grass is Singing is a superb evocation of Africa s majestic beauty, an intense psychological portrait of lives in confusion and, most of all, a fearless exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

About the Author

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 . Her most recent novel was Alfred and Emily . Doris Lessing passed away on 17 November 2013.

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