A Ripple from the Storm (Children of Violence Series #3)

by Doris Lessing

Overview

"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."  — New York Times Book Review

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060976644
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/01/1995
Series:	Children of Violence , #3
Edition description:	1st HarperPerennial ed
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	596,173
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

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, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the David Cohen Memorial Prize for British Literature, the James Tait Black Prize for best biography, Spain's Prince of Asturias Prize and Prix Catalunya, and the S. T. Dupont Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature.

Hometown:

London, England

Date of Birth:

October 22, 1919

Place of Birth:

Persia (now Iran)

What People are Saying About This

Joyce Carol Oates

"A powerful, prophetic, mysterious work, a truly extraordinary novel....The insanity of the 20th century...[and] the mystery of the self, explored brilliantly here as it is in her other masterpiece The Golden Notebook....Here is a book not to be read, but experienced."

Barbara Kingsolver

"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."

Stanley Kauffmann

"She is a mature ad valuable artist, adventurous in the mysteries of daily life, thoughtful, passionate, true."

John Wain

"There can't, I suppose , be anyone left who reads modern fiction at all and isn't aware of the importance of Doris Lessing's work...Lessing knows just what she is doing and a real, densely imagined, completely credible world emerges."

Editorial Reviews

"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

"Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character." — Sunday Times (London)

"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." — New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher

"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."

New York Times Book Review

"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

"Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character."

Sunday Times (London)

This work will rank with the foremost fictional commentaries on events in our century.

Milwaukee Journal