The fifth child

• Auteur : Doris Lessing
• • Editeur : Harper perennial 2007
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-0-586-08903-3
  • Format : 159 p.
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : roman
  • Note générale : Winner of the nobel prize for literature 2007
  • Résumé :

    Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashionned family values : four children, a beautiful house, the love of relatives and friends. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, the nfant Ben is violent and uncontrollable. Strugglig 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 ...

• • Thème de fiction : drame/famille
  • niveau : Lycée