The Grass Is Singing

Name: The Grass Is Singing
Author: Doris Lessing

by Doris Lessing

Novel depicting racism and moral decay in colonial Africa through human tragedy

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Doris Lessing

Lessing was a Nobel laureate whose fiction spanned social realism, feminism, and science fiction across a career of seven decades. The Golden Notebook is her masterpiece, a formally innovative examination of female consciousness and political commitment.

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