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Autor: Lessing, Doris
Editorial: HARPER COLLINS UK
Lenguaje: Inglés
ISBN13: 9780586090008
Reseña: The third book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winners Children of Violence series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. The personal life of a comrade would be arranged so that it interferes as little as possible with work he said. Martha had not imagined that the personal talk with Anton would arise like an item on an agenda she now felt frivolous because she had been looking forward to something different ... The Children of Violence series established Doris Lessing as a major radical writer. In this third volume Martha now free of her stultifying marriage to Douglas is able to pursue the independent life she has wanted for so long. Her deepening involvement with South African revolutionary politics draws her into a world of fierce commitments and passionate idealism. A time of great change Marthas young womanhood brings not only immense happiness when she embarks on an affair with a fellow party member but also great sorrow - for the pain of abandoning Caroline her baby daughter left at home with Douglas never diminishes ...
