by Doris Lessing · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429740073
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«La terrorista bona» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published in 1995 by Edicions 62 in hardcover (364 pages, in Catalan).
The narrative follows Alice Mellings, a woman who turns her home into the headquarters of a group of left-wing radicals who want to collaborate with the IRA. With a morally uncomfortable gaze, the novel portrays political manipulation, social disillusionment, and the lack of concrete ideals in the contemporary world.
It belongs to the collection «Escriptores del segle XX» (number 6), with translation by R. Barnils and F. Parcerisas.
For readers of literary and political fiction seeking an uncomfortable approach to activism and its contradictions.
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).
