by Doris Lessing · EDITORIAL EDHASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435008037
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«El quinto hijo» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Edhasa in paperback (168 pages, in Spanish).
In 1960s England, Harriet and David Lovatt try to create a happy home with their four children, apart from the social changes of the era. The birth of the fifth child, Ben, a boy with unsettling looks and behavior, shatters that harmony. A parable about social brutality and the difficulty of accepting what is different.
First installment of the Ben Lovatt series. Translated by Ángela Pérez; the original English edition, The Fifth Child, was published in 1988 and the Spanish edition in 1989.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in gothic horror and social reflection.
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).
