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9788172239190 60ba34a2b10f401fdf7315cd Ghas Ga Rahi Hai https://www.midlandbookshop.com/s/607fe93d7eafcac1f2c73ea4/60ba60e743ed2b7e10787a49/9788172239190.jpg '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. 9788172239190
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  • ISBN: 9788172239190
  • Author: Lessing Doris
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 220
  • Format: Paperback
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'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.

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