by Doris Lessing · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807812620
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«Martha Quest» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (294 pages, in Italian).
Martha Quest, a sixteen-year-old girl, grows up on a South African farm and experiences adolescence as a suffocating ordeal. She moves to the city, works as a secretary, and witnesses the social, political, and racial tensions of the 1930s, faced with the choice of conforming to social frivolity or embracing political commitment.
«Martha Quest» is the first instalment of the series «Los hijos de la violencia»; it belongs to the Universale Economica collection and this edition is from 2003.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
