by Doris Lessing · SALVAT: GRANDES ESCRITORAS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434589988
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«Diario de una buena vecina» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Salvat in hardcover (100 pages, in Spanish).
Janna Somers, a London editor who prefers to keep her distance, ends up caring for her elderly and difficult neighbor Maudie Fowler. The relationship with Maudie, proud and needy, forces Janna to re-examine her fears and prejudices. The novel addresses old age, loneliness and compassion, and shows how an unexpected bond transforms both women.
It belongs to the series The Diaries of Jane Somers; the original English title is The Diary of a Good Neighbor. Spanish-language edition of 1994 in the collection Grandes Éxitos / Grandes Escritoras.
For readers of narrative and fiction interested in stories about old age, loneliness and bonds between women.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
