The Fifth Child

A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.

Informationen zum Autor Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013. Klappentext Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other s hand, and smile, and breathe happiness. Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, `full of cold dislike, tears at Harriet s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world Zusammenfassung A classic tale from Doris Lessing! winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature! of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben! their feral fifth child.

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Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other s hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.

Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, `full of cold dislike, tears at Harriet s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world