num_pages: 334
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Ripple from the Storm
titlecomplete: A Ripple from the Storm (Children of Violence, #3)
characters: Martha Quest, Anton Hesse
genres: Literature, Feminism, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Zimbabwe, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Africa, British Literature
ratings_count: 639
places: Africa
series: Children of Violence
publisher: Harper Perennial