The Grass is Singing - Couverture souple

Lessing, Doris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586089241 ISBN 13 : 9780586089248

Editeur : Flamingo, 2002

Synopsis

The classic first novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of 'The Grass is Singing' with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately established itself as a landmark in twentieth-century literature. Set in Rhodesia, it tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush. Trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny brick and iron house, Mary, lonely and frightened, 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 passionate exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flamingo
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0586089241
• ISBN 13: 9780586089248
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 208