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Deze epische serie beschrijft de reis van een jonge vrouw die worstelt met maatschappelijke verwachtingen en persoonlijke ontwakening tijdens de turbulente helft van de 20e eeuw. De serie speelt zich af tegen de achtergrond van koloniaal Afrika en later Londen, waar de protagonist navigeert door complexe persoonlijke en politieke landschappen. Het verhaal duikt in thema's als identiteit, onafhankelijkheid en de zoektocht naar betekenis in een snel veranderende wereld. Het biedt een diepgaande verkenning van het vrouwelijke bewustzijn, intellectuele rebellie en de zoektocht naar authentieke zelfexpressie te midden van historische omwentelingen.

The Four-Gated City
Martha Quest
Landlocked
A Ripple from the Storm
A Proper Marriage

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    Martha Quest

    3,8(2182)Tarief

    Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

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    A Proper Marriage

    4,1(965)Tarief

    An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

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    A Ripple from the Storm

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    3,9(12)Tarief

    The third book in the Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are Martha Quest , A Proper Marriage , Landlocked and The Four-Gated City .

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    The Four-Gated City

    4,0(17)Tarief

    The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three. In the four previous novels of the 'Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.

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