by Doris Lessing · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807810220
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«Il diario di Jane Somers» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (256 pages, in Italian).
Janna, an elegant and successful professional woman, meets Maudie Fowler, a lonely and proud old lady, by chance. From that friendship a close bond arises that confronts Janna with old age, loneliness and fragility, and reveals to her a world of needs and dignity she did not know.
Series «The Diaries of Jane Somers», volumes 1-2. Originally published in 1983 as «The Diary of a Good Neighbor» under the pseudonym Jane Somers; translation by Marisa Caramella.
For readers of literary fiction and followers of Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winner, interested in female friendship and old age.
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).
