| Title | Children of violence
A ripple from the storm |
|---|---|
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| Publication | Flamingo |
| Size | 334p |
| Language | ENG |
| ISBN | 9780586090008 |
| Topics |
English fiction--Women English fiction--Biographical |
| Notes | Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa. A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century. |