by Doris Lessing · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440642820
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The Fifth Child is a novel by acclaimed author Doris Lessing, published in 1993. The story explores the arrival of a fifth child into a seemingly ideal family, triggering a series of disturbing events that challenge their values and beliefs. Through an intense and reflective narrative, Lessing examines themes such as motherhood, difference, and the limits of family love in a complex social context.
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).
