The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's
'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from
her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear
Britain. When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen
living with her parents on a poor African farm. She is eager for
life and resentful of the deadening narrowness of home, and escapes
to take a job as a typist in the local capital. Here, in the 'big
city', she encounters the real life she was so eager to know and
understand. As a picture of colonial life, 'Martha Quest' succeeds
by the depth of its realism alone; but always at its centre is
Martha, a sympathetic figure drawn with unrelenting objectivity.
Martha's Africa is Doris Lessing's Africa: the restrictive life of
the farm; the atmosphere of racial fear and antagonism; the
superficial sophistication of the city. And both Martha and Lessing
are Children of Violence: the generation that was born of one world
war and came of age in another, whose abrasive relationships with
their parents, with one another, and with society are laid bare
brilliantly by a writer who understands them better than any other.
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