by Doris Lessing · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466305297
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«La buena terrorista» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Punto de Lectura S.L. in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
Alice, an English middle-class woman, joins a group of squatters occupying an abandoned house in London. Coexistence drifts towards radical militancy and Alice finds herself immersed in violent actions. The novel ironically portrays Alice's double life, between commune chores and ideological drift.
Originally published in English as The Good Terrorist (1985); the Spanish edition is from 2001. The cover features the 2001 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature granted to Doris Lessing.
For readers of literary fiction and political novels, especially those who want to approach Doris Lessing and her portraits of radicalism.
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).
