具体描述
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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2007诺贝尔文学奖得主
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读后感
这是12年的某个下午在图书馆里看完的书。书评写在空间上了。粘过来。 其实对作者的深意仍没看的很明了。 暂且写一写我看到的一些吧。 海蕊和大卫，确实像两个边缘人，书一开始便反复的说着他们与那个社会的种种格格不入。追求着简单幸福的生活——多要一些孩子，一个宽敞舒适...
评分一个故事的两个角度 ——读多丽丝•莱辛的《第五个孩子》和《浮世畸零人》 西门媚／文 这两本书看似是一个故事的上下两部分，但给人的心理感受却完全不同。 读《第五个孩子》的时候，完全想不到后面还有那样一个视角和结局。 《第五个孩子》讲述一对平凡的夫妇，有着普通...
评分 评分这是12年的某个下午在图书馆里看完的书。书评写在空间上了。粘过来。 其实对作者的深意仍没看的很明了。 暂且写一写我看到的一些吧。 海蕊和大卫，确实像两个边缘人，书一开始便反复的说着他们与那个社会的种种格格不入。追求着简单幸福的生活——多要一些孩子，一个宽敞舒适...
评分用户评价
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
评分Presentation is a second creation.生词太难太多，泛读之。
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sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
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