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A review by raulbime
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
4.0
This incredible book was Doris Lessing's first book, set in Southern Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe) where Doris Lessing herself lived for quite some portion of her life.
The book written in 1950 was banned in Southern Africa for years, and one can see why. Written when nearly all the countries on the African continent were still colonized, 30 years before Zimbabwe's independence and forty before South Africa's, the books honesty, especially considering the time and Lessing being a white woman in and of that time, is absolutely shocking.
Lessing's introspective style of writing highlighting a discrimination and hatred that existed against the Black native population by the white settlers is absolutely incredible, where she tells of the Turners and the destructiveness of hatred to all involved, especially to the victim, the active discriminating figures and the passive ones.
The book written in 1950 was banned in Southern Africa for years, and one can see why. Written when nearly all the countries on the African continent were still colonized, 30 years before Zimbabwe's independence and forty before South Africa's, the books honesty, especially considering the time and Lessing being a white woman in and of that time, is absolutely shocking.
Lessing's introspective style of writing highlighting a discrimination and hatred that existed against the Black native population by the white settlers is absolutely incredible, where she tells of the Turners and the destructiveness of hatred to all involved, especially to the victim, the active discriminating figures and the passive ones.