by Doris Lessing · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466305280
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«Diario de una buena vecina» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
Jane Somers, fashion editor of a London magazine, has her orderly life disrupted by Maudie Fowler, a poor old woman with a sour temper. Jane's diary records her growing involvement with Maudie and her reflections on old age, loneliness and caring for others.
Volume 266 of the Punto de Lectura collection. The cover states that Doris Lessing received the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2001.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in stories about old age, loneliness and human relationships.
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).
