by Doris Lessing · HarperCollins Distribution Services · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586051030
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«The Grass Is Singing» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by HarperCollins Distribution Services in paperback (224 pages, in English).
The action takes place in rural South Africa under white rule and follows Mary Turner, an independent woman who ends up as the isolated and frustrated wife of an unsuccessful farmer. Her growing desperation leads her into a tense and dangerous relationship with her Black servant, Moses, in a story that portrays human deterioration and the contradictions of a colonial society marked by racial inequality.
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).
