Martha Quest (Children of Violence S.) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

 
9780586021156: Martha Quest (Children of Violence S.)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0586021159 ISBN 13: 9780586021156
Verlag: Grafton, 1969

Inhaltsangabe

The 'Children of Violence' series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this first volume, Martha, the young rebellious daughter of a white family, finds her coming of age to be a great struggle for freedom and recognition. Intelligent and deeply compassionate, she sees the unpalatable political and social realities of her world with an extraordinary clarity. Martha's vision of a just society takes her beyond the impoverished and rigid farming community to the city an ill-matched marriage her means of escape

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Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.

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Verlag
Grafton
Erscheinungsdatum
1969
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0586021159
ISBN 13 
9780586021156
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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