by Doris Lessing · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140815030
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«The Grass Is Singing» is the graded reader of Doris Lessing's novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (64 pages, in English).
In colonial Southern Rhodesia, Mary Turner, a formerly independent woman, struggles in a grey marriage with an ineffective white farmer. The farm's isolation, routine and tedium gradually undermine her stability; her relationship with Moses, the Black servant, becomes charged with a tension between attraction and rejection that anticipates a tragic outcome.
Abridged edition from Penguin Readers, level 5, with 2300 headwords; series aimed at graded readers in English.
For upper-intermediate English students who want to practice reading with an adapted classic work.
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).
