A classic tale from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. '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!
我曾经做过一个关于政治倾向的测试,之前满心以为自己一定是右边的,没想到结果是一半一半。 看【第五个孩子】的时候,我忍不住老是想到这件事。 人,从生存的权利来看,是生而平等的吧。没有谁有权利剥夺别人的生命。 那么畸形儿呢? 哦,可怜的班,他身上带着罕见...
评分“可怜的班。” 这是小说中给我印象最深的一句话。 那时班还很小,他几乎不懂得这句话的含义,他称自己为“可怜的班”。也许只是因为他听到别人这么说他,也许,他真的觉得自己可怜。看到这里的时候,我脑中仿佛被一个大锤狠狠地震了一下,猛然惊醒过来。 班生活在一个幸福的家...
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