The Grass is Singing

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'One of the most important writers of the past hundred jears.'
et 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' j poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and i Moses—master and slave—are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic : tension explodes with devastating consequences.

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Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize tor Literamre, DORIS LESSING;.:^^ is one of the most celebrated ii?^'"r and distinguished writers of our " /vi time, the recipient... Tovább

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'One of the most important writers of the past hundred jears.'
et 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' j poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic, virile black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and i Moses—master and slave—are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic : tension explodes with devastating consequences.

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Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize tor Literamre, DORIS LESSING;.:^^ is one of the most celebrated ii?^'"r and distinguished writers of our " /vi time, the recipient of a host of . ? international awards including ^ the David Cohen Memorial Prize for British Literature, Spain's ; i Prince of Asturias Prize and Prix Catalunya, and the S.T. Dupont Golden PEN Awai'd for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She lives in London.
"Her impressive first novel is told— '--with all the intensity and passion Miss Lessing compacts into all her work." ^'if —St. Louis Post-Dispatch Vissza