by Doris Lessing · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483468203
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In 'The Fifth Child', Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, presents the story of Harriet and David Lovatt, a couple who long for a traditional family life in 1960s England. However, the arrival of their fifth child, Ben, a baby with a monstrous appearance and wild behavior, transforms their idyllic world into a nightmare. The novel explores themes of motherhood, fear of social exclusion, and the fragility of family happiness in the face of the unknown and disturbing.
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).
