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Ghas Ga Rahi Hai
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About the book
‘An extremely mature psychological study. [The Grass Is Singing] is full of touches of truth seldom mentioned but instantly recognized. By any standards, this, book shows remarkable powers and imagination.’ – New Statesman ‘Emotional unity and force … one of her best works’ – New York Reviewof Books ‘Her impressive first novel is told with all the intensity and passion Miss Lessing compacts into all her work’ – St. Louis Post-Dispatch ‘There is passion here, a piercing accuracy a rare sensitivity and power … One can only marvel’ – New York Times 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 selfconfident, 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. The 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.
Pages: 220
Available in: Paperback
Language: English
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature and is one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, was published in 1950, and since then her international reputation has flourished. Among her other celebrated novels are The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark and The Good Terrorist. Her most recent works include two volumes of autobiography, Under my Skin and Walking in the Shade, and the novel The Cleft