by Doris Lessing · HARPER COLLINS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007718757
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«The Fifth Child» is Doris Lessing's gothic horror novel, published by Harper Collins in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Harriet and David Lovatt have built a peaceful family life, far from the turbulent England of the late 1960s, but the birth of their fifth child, Ben, shatters that balance. The boy proves strange, voracious and violent, and his very presence gradually consumes the harmony of the home, confronting his parents with a reality they do not wish to accept.
First instalment of the Ben Lovatt series; originally published in 1988, it won the Grinzane Cavour Prize and was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
For readers of gothic horror and contemporary fiction; also for those who follow Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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).
