After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life.
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Martha leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new "children of violence", grow up in a distintegrating world, a world careering towards nuclear disaster.
"The 'Children of Violence' series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Martha, now middle-aged, l…
A ripple from the storm: a novel
by Lessing, Doris, (Doris May)
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Na haar mislukte huwelijk sluit een jonge vrouw zich bij het begin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan bij een groep communisten in Zambia.
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine ... as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In [this novel, the author] charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second m…
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.
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.
In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering c…
In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering c…
In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering c…
In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering c…
