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The grass is singing / Doris Lessing.

By: Language: English Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 2008Edition: 1. Harper Perennial Modern Classics edDescription: 238, 26 p. 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061673740
  • 0061673749
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 22
Other classification:
  • He.01
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Book Biblioteket HKR Skönlitteratur Roman Eng Lessing Available 11156000176149
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel." -- New York Times

Set 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 poison. Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of Moses, an enigmatic black servant. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion, until their psychic tension explodes with devastating consequences.