by Doris Lessing · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466321235
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«El quinto hijo» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Punto de Lectura S.L. in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
In 1960s England, Harriet and David Lovatt form a happy family. The arrival of the fifth child, Ben, changes everything: the pregnancy is violent, the birth difficult, and the boy grows up with a strength and aggressiveness that distance him from his siblings and shatter the harmony of the home.
First installment of the Ben Lovatt series. Originally published in 1988 as The Fifth Child. Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary horror, as well as for those who follow 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).
