THE FIFTH CHILD

THE FIFTH CHILD

LESSING, DORIS

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HARPER COLLINS
Materia
Contemporary literature
ISBN:
978-0-586-08903-3
Páginas:
160
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Paperback
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“The Fifth Child” descriu els canvis en la feliç vida de l’Harriet i en David Lovatt, després del naixement del seu cinquè fill Ben. Quan David Lovatt i Harriet es troben a un esdeveniment de la feina, s’enamoren immediatament. Tots dos comparteixen ideals conservadors, cosa estranya per la societat immoral de Londres dels anys seixanta. Es casen i compren una gran propietat en un poble a les afores de Londres. Volen molts fills, decisió que les respectives famílies no comparteixen. Tenen quatre fills, dos nens i dues nenes i la seva casa es converteix en un lloc d’alegria no nomes per ells sinó també pels familiars i els amics que van a veure’ls. Però això acaba quan Harriet espera el seu cinquè fill. El seu embaràs marca el començament de la misèria i del patiment que aquest nen porta a la família.

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 ...

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