{"product_id":"a-ripple-from-the-storm-harperperennial","title":"A Ripple from the Storm (Harperperennial)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.\" -- \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha 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 \u003cem\u003eRipple from the Storm, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eRipple from the Storm\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943411974375,"sku":"9780060976644","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_2e95767c-6586-4aaf-82ba-1d36dafbe459.jpg?v=1775321841","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-ripple-from-the-storm-harperperennial","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}