by Doris Lessing · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496778894
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«Canta la hierba» is the novel by British writer Doris Lessing, published by Zeta Bolsillo in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Mary Turner, a white woman in apartheid South Africa who lives independently in the city until she decides to marry to silence the gossip. After settling on an isolated farm with her husband, her life changes due to the conventions of the white community and her dealings with Black workers.
The novel was originally published in 1950 as The Grass is Singing; the Spanish edition, translated by Pilar Giralt Gorina, came out in 2008. Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
A work for readers of literary fiction and social narrative interested in apartheid South Africa.
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).
