Grass is Singing, The
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0586089241
ISBN 13
9780586089248
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
206
Abstract
Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. 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 work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.
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Compétences : Lire Débutant complet : non
Descriptif : Nobel prize winner
Résumé : "Set in Rhodesia, this novel tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush."
Descriptif : Nobel prize winner
Résumé : "Set in Rhodesia, this novel tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush."
Number of Copies
1
