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Author: | Doris Lessing |
Original Title: | The Grass is Singing |
Book Format: | Hardcover |
Number Of Pages: | 208 pages |
First Published in: | 1950 |
Latest Edition: | March 6th 2000 |
ISBN Number: | 9780002257558 |
Language: | English |
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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 self-confident, 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 poiso..more
Mary Turner is a self-confident, 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 poiso..more
Published March 6th 2000 by Flamingo (first published 1950)
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LynNot in any lecturing way. No more than any other book which looks at people's lives. It does show how women of that era were treated, but it is also…moreNot in any lecturing way. No more than any other book which looks at people's lives. It does show how women of that era were treated, but it is also about its time and place with class, race, prejudice, human nature, loss, isolation, money or lack of it. It is a very sparse landscape, dry and harsh and isolated. Some people can shine there, others just burn.(less)
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Jun 01, 2011Petal Eggs rated it it was amazing
This book is a stunning exposé of why Zimbabwe has Mugabe and why he, evil as he is, is certainly no worse than that great white hope, Sir Cecil Rhodes. The whites in this book, with one exception, are all devotees of Rhodes and his brand of racism - Rhodesia for the whites, the blacks are suitable for being farm animals as they are all simpleminded thieves, liars and hate the white man. It's the same mindset as slavery really.
The grass is singing cicada songs, songs of blood, songs of freedom w..more
The grass is singing cicada songs, songs of blood, songs of freedom w..more
Doris Lessing's first novel has the precision of a fine short story and the depth of a longer novel. This portrait of the psychological disintegration of a farmer's wife saddled with an ineffectual husband on a luckless South African farm is precisely realized and and completely convincing.
The last quarter of the novel, however, is weaker than the rest. The character of the black house servant Moses is more of a symbol than a human being, and the ending--meant to be tragic--descends to melodram..more
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Recommends it for: The resilient walkers under scorching circumstances
If this novel impresses from the very beginning it is because of the openness in which Lessing plays her cards in the first chapter. The voice of the omniscient narrator glows with the clarity of objective facts that is missing in the rest of the novel, replaced by an increasingly suffocating account of two doomed lives that slowly disintegrate in polarized madness.
The tragic end of Mary Turner, a white woman, in the hands of Moses, her black servant, in a remote, hostile South African hell is r..more
Jun 25, 2013The tragic end of Mary Turner, a white woman, in the hands of Moses, her black servant, in a remote, hostile South African hell is r..more
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The Grass is Singing is Doris Lessing's first novel, published in 1950. It is a savage and stark indictment of South Africa's apartheid system. It is set in what was formerly Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and concentrates on Rhodesian white culture with its racist and prejudiced attitudes. The system of gross racial injustice dominates both the society and this story.
The novel is told in flashback. At the beginning of chapter one there is a brief news report of the murder of a white woman plu..more
Nov 18, 2012Kris rated it really liked it · review of another editionThe novel is told in flashback. At the beginning of chapter one there is a brief news report of the murder of a white woman plu..more
Shelves: fiction, 1001, classics, zimbabwe, africa
In her first novel, The Grass is Singing (first published 1950), Doris Lessing begins with a short description of a crime on a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe):
MURDER MYSTERY
By Special Correspondent
Mary Turner, wife of Richard Turner, a farmer at Ngesi, was found murdered on the front veranda of their homestead yesterday morning. The houseboy, who has been arrested, has confessed to the crime. No motive has been discovered. It is thought he was in search of valuables.
For Lessing, the cri..more
MURDER MYSTERY
By Special Correspondent
Mary Turner, wife of Richard Turner, a farmer at Ngesi, was found murdered on the front veranda of their homestead yesterday morning. The houseboy, who has been arrested, has confessed to the crime. No motive has been discovered. It is thought he was in search of valuables.
For Lessing, the cri..more
Jul 05, 2015Mary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
The Grass is Singing is a novel of colonialism, human degradation, and an uncomfortable view of the prevailing attitude of a time and place, and yet, to me it was more so a powerful portrait of a crumbling mind.
Mary Turner is a hideous woman; bitter, cruel, entitled. What started out as a woman’s resentment over a boring farm life and a distant marriage soon turned into something deeper and much more unsettling. Sometimes people are broken so early in their life that it’s impossible to ever be..more
Mary Turner is a hideous woman; bitter, cruel, entitled. What started out as a woman’s resentment over a boring farm life and a distant marriage soon turned into something deeper and much more unsettling. Sometimes people are broken so early in their life that it’s impossible to ever be..more
Aug 05, 2013Zanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Re-read after about 7 year's break.
One of the unusual things about this, Lessing's first published book, is the extreme omniscient author position she takes. She describes a character's appearance to others, then swoops into her psyche to reveal her thoughts. She describes someone's response to another person's expression and then jumps to his companion's view of him. To emphasise her power even further, she shifts from objective descriptions of the landscape to characters' experiences of it. Ho..more
One of the unusual things about this, Lessing's first published book, is the extreme omniscient author position she takes. She describes a character's appearance to others, then swoops into her psyche to reveal her thoughts. She describes someone's response to another person's expression and then jumps to his companion's view of him. To emphasise her power even further, she shifts from objective descriptions of the landscape to characters' experiences of it. Ho..more
Dec 01, 2016Carol rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“It is by the failures and misfits of a civilization that one can best judge its weaknesses.”
-Author Unknown
****4.5 Stars**** I was shattered with the outcome of this novel. Disturbing. Unflinching. Compulsively readable.
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Jan 29, 2017Robin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition-Author Unknown
****4.5 Stars**** I was shattered with the outcome of this novel. Disturbing. Unflinching. Compulsively readable.
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Shelves: 2017, literary-fiction, debut, south-africa
Colonialism in southern Africa: both sides left in destruction
Doris Lessing, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the incredibly haunting story of the disintegration and descent into madness of Mary and her husband Dick Turner, simultaneously revealing the scathing truths of apartheid-ruled life in Rhodesia. This was her first book, published in 1950. What a debut! I'm stunned, I have goosebumps; I'm unfit to do this book justice, to convey the claustrophobic, solitary descent..more
Doris Lessing, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature, tells the incredibly haunting story of the disintegration and descent into madness of Mary and her husband Dick Turner, simultaneously revealing the scathing truths of apartheid-ruled life in Rhodesia. This was her first book, published in 1950. What a debut! I'm stunned, I have goosebumps; I'm unfit to do this book justice, to convey the claustrophobic, solitary descent..more
Oct 08, 2015Dem rated it it was ok
2.5 Stars The Grass is singing by Dorris Lessing was a bookclub read.
I found the book an ok read, I liked the setting of the novel and thought the author conveyed an excellent sense of time and place.
The story at the core of this novel is about race and the racist attitudes of society at this time in Southern Rhodesia.
The book is a challenging read and I found the characters quite dislikable and a relentless air of doom and gloom about the plot.
The novel opens with the announcement in a local..more
Jun 01, 2017Aditi rated it really liked it · review of another editionI found the book an ok read, I liked the setting of the novel and thought the author conveyed an excellent sense of time and place.
The story at the core of this novel is about race and the racist attitudes of society at this time in Southern Rhodesia.
The book is a challenging read and I found the characters quite dislikable and a relentless air of doom and gloom about the plot.
The novel opens with the announcement in a local..more
Shelves: family, my-reviews, classic, harper-collins, friends, historical-fiction, africa
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
----F. Scott Fitzgerald
Doris Lessing's, the Nobel Prize winning debut book, The Grass is Singing revolves around a youngish woman who after marrying a South African white farmer, and within a few years, looses herself and becomes a victim to immense loneliness as she realizes her husband's constant failure both in his farm as well as in their shared marital li..more
----F. Scott Fitzgerald
Doris Lessing's, the Nobel Prize winning debut book, The Grass is Singing revolves around a youngish woman who after marrying a South African white farmer, and within a few years, looses herself and becomes a victim to immense loneliness as she realizes her husband's constant failure both in his farm as well as in their shared marital li..more
Jul 28, 2017Tracey rated it really liked it · review of another edition

South Africa
The novel is set in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe in the 1940s. At this time the country was governed according to the rules of apartheid, a system of institutionalized racism in which the white minority was socially, legally, and politically dominant over the black majority.
I had a feeling this was going to be a challenging book for me.
The opening chapter is very difficult to read, begins with a newspaper report about the murder of a white woman by a black man, a servant in her house.
The..more
Oct 12, 2015Parthiban Sekar rated it really liked it · review of another editionSouth Africa
The novel is set in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe in the 1940s. At this time the country was governed according to the rules of apartheid, a system of institutionalized racism in which the white minority was socially, legally, and politically dominant over the black majority.
I had a feeling this was going to be a challenging book for me.
The opening chapter is very difficult to read, begins with a newspaper report about the murder of a white woman by a black man, a servant in her house.
The..more
Shelves: noblelit, favorites, must-read, african, read-again
'It is by the failures and misfits of a civilization that one can best judge its weakness'
~Unknown
Was it civilization which led to colonization or was it the other way? Trying to find answer for this question would like trying to answer the ever puzzling question 'Which came first: chicken or the egg? I am sure that there are apparently acceptable answers for the latter but not the former. Because civilization and colonization are confederates encroaching on the foreign lands, enslaving the nat..more
~Unknown
Was it civilization which led to colonization or was it the other way? Trying to find answer for this question would like trying to answer the ever puzzling question 'Which came first: chicken or the egg? I am sure that there are apparently acceptable answers for the latter but not the former. Because civilization and colonization are confederates encroaching on the foreign lands, enslaving the nat..more
Sep 17, 2007Giovanna rated it really liked it
I wouldn't say that I enjoyed this book (because how can you enjoy the telling of the slow but constant decomposition of a woman and her psyche) but I do have to say that it was an engrossing read. Although I could not identify with the characters and rejected their weaknesses and frailties, I could not put the book down. The author creates a wonderful psychological vortex in the hot and arid lands of the African bush and she is not afraid to take it to its ultimate conclusion. The book is also..more
Oct 16, 2008Georgia rated it really liked it
Not the good time read of the year. In this book it's almost impossible to not pity and despise all of the characters. Set in Rhodesia, this is Doris Lessing's first novel and she pulls from her experience growing up in Africa.
Page 1. Mary Turner has been murdered on the farm where she and her husband Dick live. That's about as pleasant as the book gets. So be warned. Lessing goes back from this gruesome scene to explain how Mary left her pleasant single life working in the city and ended up mis..more
Jan 08, 2010Chrissie rated it liked it · review of another editionPage 1. Mary Turner has been murdered on the farm where she and her husband Dick live. That's about as pleasant as the book gets. So be warned. Lessing goes back from this gruesome scene to explain how Mary left her pleasant single life working in the city and ended up mis..more
Shelves: race, philo-psychol, 2013-read, zimbabwe, alt
This book grows on you. While I was reading it, it disturbed me. It has a strong emotional impact. What disturbed me was that the story is told. There is an omniscient narrator who explains everything, what happens and why each character makes the choices they make. We are told how they feel and why they do particular things. How as a reader do you react if you think other reasons could be the cause of a particular choice? I wasn’t quite sure if I believed what I was being told, so rather than a..more
Jan 25, 2013Margitte rated it it was amazing Shelves: south-africa, fiction, golden-oldies-classics, africa
A remarkable book, given that it was first published in 1950 during a much different era than the current one in Africa. For me it is an extension, if you will, of similar racial prejudice and hardships experienced by the Jamaicans who migrated to England after the Second World War as described in 'Small Island', written by Andrea Levy, as well as so many other authors reporting similar kind of circumstances. Their books, however, were based on historical events, where as Lessing's book was rele..more
Jan 10, 2011Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly rated it really liked it
My brother-in-law loves to spend his weekend drinking with his buddies. They drink and swap tales. My mother, sister, wife, our househelps and a lot of women I know all have their favorite soap operas, movies, gossips and daily topics for discussion. A brother of mine is a voracious reader; the other, addicted to historical trivia. All these are just varied ways to satisfy the great human need for stories.
Great story, this novel with a title taken from T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' that part wh..more
May 28, 2018Cphe rated it Great story, this novel with a title taken from T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' that part wh..more
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really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: 2018, guardian-boxall-2018, mystery, suspense, obsession, psychological, dark-very-dark
This was a mystery, at least it started out that way with a murder/mystery. As the story unfolded it revealed how and why the murder of a white woman in South Africa had taken place. However the murder was just one aspect of the novel overall. The characters on offer here were difficult to like. It was the countryside that shone here, the descriptions were visual. Some cringe worthy moments reading this due to some of the language used but it fitted the times...This was a story of loneliness,..more
Apr 09, 2016Lynne King added it
I have no doubt that this is a brilliant book but it is not for me.
May 21, 2014Abby rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'The Grass Is Singing' was Doris Lessing's first novel, published in 1950 when she was thirty years old, had moved from Southern Rhodesia to London and had had 3 children by two husbands. Lessing wasn't born in Africa -- she came with her British parents as a young child from Persia -- but her early novels were based on her years on her family's struggling farm and as a young wife and mother in colonial Africa with its rigid constraints based on race, class and gender.
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Nov 25, 2011Haaze rated it really liked it · review of another editionWhile “The Grass Is Singin..more
Shelves: nobel, literature, literature-20th-century
This was my first book by the famed Lessing. It focuses on the relationship of a poor couple eeking out a living on a farm in South Africa. When I first started out on this book I was convinced that the story would focus on Apartheid in South Africa. There are different elements of these aspects in the book, but I did not find that race was the main topic. To my surprise the core of the book is about something completely different (from my perspective) in terms of life paths, dreams and expectat..more
Jan 31, 2014Pink rated it liked it · review of another edition
I liked this book a lot, even more so realising it was Lessing's first novel written back in 1950. I found her writing very evocative, being able to picture the African landscapes and detailed characters in my head. I flew through this short book in little over a day, as I was captivated by the story and wanted to find out what happened. Yet somewhere towards the end, the story ran out of steam for me and kind of drifted off from all the detail that I'd previously loved. While this book won't be..more
Apr 19, 2019Beth Bonini rated it really liked it Shelves: classic, classics-that-i-m-just-now-reading, culture, haunted-houses, bad-marriage
This is not a ‘haunted house’ story in the usual sense of ghosts or the gothic genre, but it would be a challenge to think of a fictional house more decrepit, or with inhabitants more trapped, miserable and hopeless. Death stalks the pages from the first chapter, but really this book is about a culture so deformed and ugly that it twists and torments the souls of everyone unfortunate enough to be a part of it.
The book is set in Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) before the fight for independenc..more
The book is set in Southern Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe) before the fight for independenc..more
May 17, 2008James rated it liked it · review of another edition
While the title sounds rather lyrical the story is anything but that. This is the story of Mary and Richard Turner, who farm the land in South Africa in the forties when apartheid is the rule. Mary is an intelligent woman who makes a a fateful choice in Richard for her husband. Living with Richard, who is ineffectual and unsuited to the life of farming, soon leads Mary to depression. She grows progressively bitter and takes her frustration out on the black servants that help run the farm. In spi..more
Aug 28, 2017Ruby Granger rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
One of the most interesting takes on a protagonist I have seen. You start of loving Mary and wondering why on earth anybody would want to kill her but as the novel progresses you begin to despise her. Mary's racism is truly shocking, especially seeing as Lessing describes it as a separate entity to her individuality (suggesting that it is not an intrinsic part of her but something that has been distilled by her childhood). There is definitely a Freudian approach being explored here and if you're..more
Dec 10, 2016Eleanor rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
For some reason I missed reading Doris Lessing before now. What an extraordinary first novel this is.
It is quite painful to read Lessing's description of the wretched marriage of two people who should never have met, let alone married. That pain is matched with the dull horror of her descriptions of the exploitation visited on the native population by the occupying Europeans. Their attitude is summarised in one brief statement: 'A white person may look at a native, who is no better than a dog.'..more
Jun 12, 2016Laurie rated it really liked itIt is quite painful to read Lessing's description of the wretched marriage of two people who should never have met, let alone married. That pain is matched with the dull horror of her descriptions of the exploitation visited on the native population by the occupying Europeans. Their attitude is summarised in one brief statement: 'A white person may look at a native, who is no better than a dog.'..more
Shelves: read-women-atw-challenge, atw-circumnavigator-challenge, 20th-century-classics, 2016
For such a short novel, it took me a while to read this book. It starts out in such a riveting way, announcing the murder of Mary Turner in the first pages of the book. But this is not a murder mystery regardless of such a beginning. There is no mystery at all as to the identity of the killer. No, the question that begs to be answered is how did the relationship between Mary and the killer escalate to the point that murder was practically inevitable.
This novel is a little different from the norm..more
This novel is a little different from the norm..more
Jul 31, 2014Paola rated it really liked it
So many things go on in this novel, the unravelling of a marriage doomed from the start in apartheid South Africa* showing us how two people can cooperate gently and effortlessly in causing each other's misery. The natives all around are a necessary nuisance and a handy outlet for despairing frustration.
Lessing captures with great skill the many facets of the personalities of average individuals, from the protagonists Mary and Dick Turner, to the embodiment of South African white farming society..more
Lessing captures with great skill the many facets of the personalities of average individuals, from the protagonists Mary and Dick Turner, to the embodiment of South African white farming society..more
Feb 02, 2009Nancy rated it really liked it
This is a very powerful book that deals with racism in South Africa during apartheid. What impressed me about the novel is that she is able to convey the inherent fear and hatred that existed between whites and blacks in such a way that shows how subconscious their feelings were. The whites were self-righteous in their belief that the natives were subhuman and good for only serving the whites. They were offended if natives spoke English to them—many believing they shouldn’t be educated. The book..more
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Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Oliv..more
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“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.” — 48 likes
“If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.” — 39 likes