Reseña: The Grass is Singing is a brilliant book written by Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. It was her first novel and an astonishing success in USA and Britain. It came to the screen in the dramatic and provocative movie: “Killing Heat”.
The story takes place in South Africa in 1940, when the whites were in control. The book tells us about the difficult and painful life of a white woman in an African farm miles away from anyone. It shows how Mary, the main character, is driven slowly crazy by heat, loneliness and poverty and how her sad life finishes with her murder by a black servant.
From my point of view, this book is both entertaining and worth-reading. What I found most interesting is the change of Mary´s feelings from disappointment to madness. Chapter 5 - when Mary, who was sick and tired of living in the farm, decided to go back to her life in the town - was absolutely thrilling. She wrongly thought that everything could be better.
I would recommend it as a gripping book for those who enjoy sensitive stories with unforgettable characters. It was easy to read and understand. The writer tells us a traditional story in simple language. A perfect book for a long journey!
Pieni anni Settanta, a Stupinigi, dintorni di Torino. Lidia, una ragazza di quindici anni, figlia di un operaio Fiat, abita in una ex scuderia della Palazzina di caccia dei Savoia. Non va più a scuola e aiuta la madre a vendere verdura al mercato. Un giorno, mentre la sua vita si dipana sempre uguale, increspata soltanto dalle figurette di pongo che si diverte a modellare, appare nel tinello di casa sua un elegante venditore di enciclopedie… E la sua vita cambia: Lidia si mette in testa di diventare un trovatore, di fare come quegli antichi poeti provenzali che amavano donne lontane, mai viste, forse mai esistite. Abbagliata da quell’idea, che accende e innalza la sua vita di ragazza solitaria e ingenuamente diversa, scappa di casa: non per fare politica come tutti quelli che ha intorno, ma per cercare l’amore da lontano. Il romanzo, tra il realistico e il paradossale, racconta le avventure e le scoperte di questa ragazza, così distante dalla Storia che le scorre accanto. Per il suo bizzarro amore della lontananza, Lidia attraverserà mezza Italia (quasi come un antico cavaliere…), commetterà errori sentimentali piccoli e grandi, si infilerà in vicende a volte mediocri, a volte sublimi. Fino a che, alle soglie della maturità, incontrerà il sogno che, forse, non sapeva di avere.
This is the most famous story of the most famous detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes. One of the characters, Watson, who is Holmes´assistant, is narrating the story from his point of view. It takes place mainly in Baskerville Hall, which is the scene of the crime. It tells us about a mystery that is around the Baskervilles, a family whose members are murdered by a giant fire-breathing hound. It opens with a mystery and in the end this is solved and explained.
This book is really gripping, thrilling and worth-reading. I couldn´t put it down! I really would like to recommend it to those who enjoy detective stories and mystery books!
C’est un roman amusant et en même temps frappant vu la description que la protagoniste fait de la société et du monde du travail japonais.Je vous la recommande vivement et en plus c’est une histoire autobiographique .L’écrivaine a vécu beaucoup d’anneés au Japon (son enfance et sa jeunesse), même si elle est d’origine belge.Après,tu peux voir le film (avec le même titre) qui est très fidèle au roman ,mais il n’est pas a la bibliothèque de l’EOI, je crois
Bestselling author Bernhard Schlink talks about World War II, the face of evil and having his novel (and 1999 Oprah’s Book Club selection), The Reader, made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Kate Winslet.
The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany’s Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? “We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable…. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?” ( Amazon.com Review)
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul.
A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne’s care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.
Already an international literary sensation, The Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, following the rabbit-proof fence north as part of their guide across the desert.
This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.
WINNER of The Language Learner Literature Award 2007
Título: The Grass is Singing
Título: Più lontana della luna
Título: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Título: Stupeur et tremblements
Título: The Reader
Título: The Gargoyle
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