TY - BOOK AU - Lessing,Doris TI - The grass is singing SN - 9780061673740 AV - PR 6023 L639g 2008 U1 - 823/.914 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - HarperPerennial KW - Manners and customs KW - Ficción KW - Usos y costumbres KW - Africa KW - Social life and customs KW - Fiction KW - Race relations KW - África KW - Vida social y costumbres KW - Relaciones raciales N1 - Set in South Africa under white rule, [this book is] both a ... chronicle of human disintegration and an ... understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses.... Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion ER -