Book cover for A Ripple From the Storm by Doris Lessing

A Ripple From the Storm

Doris Lessing
2010 Released
7-8 Hours
★ 3.96 572 ratings
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HarperISBN 9780062047922
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing charts Martha Quest's personal and political adventures in race-torn British Africa, following Martha through World War II, a grotesque second marriage, and an excursion into Communism. This wise and starling novel perceptively reveals the paradoxes, passions, and ironies rooted in the life of twentieth-century Anglo-Africa.

A Ripple from the Storm is the third novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence sequence of novels, each a masterpiece in its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

Doris Lessing

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.

More by Doris Lessing

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Golden Notebook
The Grass Is Singing
The Good Terrorist
Martha Quest
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Summer Before the Dark
Shikasta
In Pursuit of the English
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Under My Skin
The Fifth Child

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