Book Details
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.
- Binding Paperback
- Author/s Lessing, Doris
- ISBN13 9780007498802
- ISBN10 0007498802
- Pages 208
- Collection INGLES #
- Published 2013
- Language English
The Grass is Singing
- Author Doris Lessing
- Publisher HARPER COLLINS
- ISBN 9780007498802
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