Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.
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是不是人越活越复杂？想的越来越多，原本很简单纯粹的问题，总是会摊铺来看…… 海蕊和戴维的相识有点不可思议，对待婚姻对待孩子的态度倒是契合… 他们先后拥有了四名子女， 他们有着周围人觉得过大的房子， 他们有着与四个孩子生活并不等称的收入来源，幸好，他们的父母多少...
评分 评分 评分 评分从故事的开端，我们就已被告知，小说的男女主人公大卫和海蕊是社会中的异类，他们保守，死板。两个类似的孤独灵魂彼此吸引，并无比热衷于生育孩子，铸造一个十分温馨热闹充满爱的家庭。 结婚后的几年也的确如他们所愿，四个孩子美丽乖巧，每一次家庭聚会都让他们乐享其中，渐渐...
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lenient, precise, cruel.
评分Time passed. It did pass.
评分Time passed. It did pass.
评分Tremendously disturbed but I think deep down we're all at some level fascinated by a darker Quasimodo. As if compelled to see he finally bring about annihilation of everything we ever believed to be undestructable — the only right thing to be done. Totally understand Harriet, maternal, Catholic and fatalistic, but hell, I would go nowhere near her.
评分Not what I expected. Thought it would be a horror story, but it is more like a book about family, about the relationship, and education
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