The Grass Is Singing

“There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.”—New York TimesSet in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel, now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, is at once a riveting chronicle of human disintegration, a searing portrait of the brutality of colonialism, a beautifully understated social critique, and a brilliant depiction of the quiet horror of one woman's struggle...