by Doris Lessing · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586089033
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«The Fifth Child» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Flamingo in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Harriet and David Lovatt lead a happy family life with four children, until Ben, their fifth child, is born: large, strange-looking and violent in behaviour. Ben's arrival sows fear in the home. The novel explores the maternal bond in the face of rejection and how society treats what does not fit.
First instalment of the Ben Lovatt series; the novel was originally published in 1988 and won the Grinzane Cavour Prize. Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
For readers of literary fiction and stories with an unsettling atmosphere, as well as for followers of Doris Lessing's work.
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).
