by Doris Lessing · Edhasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435007764
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«La buena terrorista» is the novel by Doris Lessing published by Edhasa in hardback (489 pages, in Spanish).
Alice, a sensible and practical woman, has spent years caring for Jasper, a younger gay man with whom she shares radical left-wing ideas. Along with young people who want to collaborate with the IRA, they occupy a ruined house; she paints slogans, takes part in pickets and keeps the household going. With irony and humour, the novel portrays an apparently dogmatic mind.
Work originally published as 'The Good Terrorist' in 1985; the Spanish edition, translated by Mireia Bofill, dates from 1987 and belongs to the Narrativas contemporáneas collection.
For readers of political and social fiction, with a protagonist of complex personality and an ironic portrait of radical activism.
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).
