A Ripple from the Storm - (Children of Violence) by Doris Lessing (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. -- <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong></p><p>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 <em>Ripple from the Storm, </em> 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.</p><p>A <em>Ripple from the Storm</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.--<strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br><br>Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character.--<strong><em>Sunday Times</em> (London)</strong><br><br>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.--<strong>Barbara Kingsolver</strong><br>
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