The Grass Is Singing (1950) is Lessing's first novel. It is about a young person growing to maturity. It takes place in Lessing's childhood home, Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe).
Bessie Head, a Black novelist born in the Republic of South Africa and forced to flee to Botswana for her anti-apartheid political activities, published When the Rain Clouds Gather in 1968.
Burger's Daughter (1979), by South African author Nadine Gordimer, is about a young white woman whose.....
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