Book
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The grass is singing
Call Number
- FICTION LESS (CEN)
Edition
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
Publication Information
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
Physical Description
238, 26 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
Set in South Africa under white rule, this book is both a chronicle of human disintegration and an understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion.