by Doris Lessing · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466621656
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«Canta la hierba» is the contemporary fiction novel by Doris Lessing, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Set in segregationist South Africa, it follows Mary Turner, a white woman who abandons her urban life when she marries a farmer. The isolated farm, the conventions of the white community, and the relationship with Black workers generate a tension that leads to a tragic outcome.
Doris Lessing's first novel, originally 'The Grass Is Singing' (1950). This Spanish edition, translated by Pilar Giralt Gorina, is from the Byblos collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and 20th-century classics interested in the social history of South Africa and racial conflict.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
