ｄｏｒｉｓ ｌｅｓｓｉｎｇ《The grass is singing》
今天所看兩份報章，都包括對女作家ｄｏｒｉｓ ｌｅｓｓｉｎｇ《The grass is singing》的報道。這到底是怎樣的一本書？
http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7007051802798 這兒有人作了以下描述：
「This is the high-tension story of a woman whose life was changed by a few careless words.
Even though Mary Turner had led a somewhat limited life in her sleepy South African town, she was happy until she overheard some friends say that she would never marry. At those words, her delicately balanced little world overturned, and she suddenly realized that it was desirable to have a husband, to be like the rest of her circle. Unconsciously she began to look for a man to marry, and she found one. He was a farmer - a hard-working sensitive man with an intense love of his land, a stubborn pride - but with a fatal weakness.
When Dick took her to his farm in the veldt, Mary stepped into a life completely different from anything she had ever imagined. She hated the stuffy little house; she hated the natives; she hated Dick at times and most of all she hated the burning heat and the loneliness. After one attempt to return to her life in town, she stayed on the farm, listening to the strident din of the cicadas and fighting against the realization that the security and happiness which she and Dick needed so desperately might never come.
Little by little the years worked their slow poison. And then finally one heat-laden afternoon, without even realizing what she had done, Mary Turner lit the fuse that led to a *****tering explosion of violence and tragedy.
Doris Lessing's novel is a remarkable piece of work. At times as violent and harsh as the brown earth and arching blue sky of the veldt, The Grass Is Singing is mercilessly penetrating and casts a spell all its won. At times, too, it is angry at the festering question of black against white which broods over the land like thunder. But above all, it is the story of Mary Turner who was a victim of conflicting forces within herself set up by a few casual, overheard words.
」（http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7007051802798）
知道嗎？ ｄｏｒｉｓ ｌｅｓｓｉｎｇ是一個老婆婆來的！我們絕對不能看輕世界上任何的一個老婆婆，而應該尊敬和努力去更加了解她們。下一回到圖書館網頁，可以找找她的著作啊。
