by Doris Lessing · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440642851
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«Diario de una buena vecina» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Ediciones B in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Janna, a mature woman devoted to her profession, and Maudie, an elderly woman of independent character, live very different lives. Their encounter gives rise to an unexpected friendship through which Doris Lessing explores old age, loneliness, and that secret tenderness that can unite people.
The work belongs to the series «The Diaries of Jane Somers» and originally appeared as «The Diary of a Good Neighbor» in 1983. Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in female characters, friendship and old age, and in the work of Doris Lessing.
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).
