Description
I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, as a great radical writer.
In this, the fifth and final volume, Marth, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating world, a world careering toward nuclear disaster.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/21/1995
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.08w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9780060976675
ISBN10: 0060976675
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Biographical
- Fiction | Women
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