The Grass is Singing

Häftad bok. Harper Collins UK. English text!. 2007. 206 sidor.

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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.
Gräset sjunger (The Grass Is Singing) är Doris Lessings debutroman från 1950. Den utspelar sig i Rhodesia (nuvarande Zimbabwe), i södra Afrika, i slutet av 1940-talet. Berättelsen handlar om makarna Turners olyckliga äktenskap och om deras fattiga strävan att försörja sig som lantbrukare i det koloniala Sydrhodesia. Centrala teman i boken är rasmotsättningar och social tabu, klasskillnader, makt, äktenskapliga relationer och kvinnlig frigörelse. Sexuella undertoner i berättelsen har debatterats, men boken innehåller inga explicita inslag av vare sig sex eller romantik.

Boken filmatiserades 1981 av ett svenskt filmbolag. Den filmades i Zambia av regissören Michael Raeburn med John Thaw, Karen Black och John Kani i huvudrollerna och Björn Gedda i en biroll. Den är känd under namnen Gräset sjunger eller Killing Heat.
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature."
Doris May Lessing, född Tayler den 22 oktober 1919 i Kermanshah i Iran, död 17 november 2013 i London, var en brittisk författare, ansedd som en av 1900-talets främsta. År 2007 belönades hon med Nobelpriset i litteratur med motiveringen "den kvinnliga erfarenhetens epik