Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-17 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage. set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia. 'The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner. a failed white farmer and his wife. Mary. a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years. trapped by poverty. sapped by the heat of their tiny house. the lonely and frightened Mary 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 fearless exploration of the ideology of white supremacy.
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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.
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.
DORIS LESSINGis one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel,The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels areThe Golden Notebook,The Fifth ChildandMemoirs of a Survivor. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography,Under my SkinandWalking in the Shade. Her most recent novel wasAlfred and Emily. Doris Lessing passed away on 17 November 2013.
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