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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每当我看完一本书，或者不等看完，脑子里就会对那本书有个印象，很多时候最终会归结成一个句子或一个词语，有时候如灵光乍现，也有的时候是慢慢慢慢地像滴水穿石。我如果写书评，通常会用那些句子或词语做标题。 扯远了，似乎。读《第五个孩子》的时候，脑子里的句子是...
评分 评分万事令人厌烦，人不可能说尽。眼看，看不饱；耳听，听不足。已有之事，后必有之；已行之事，后必再行。日光之下，并无新事。 ——《旧约 传道书》 即使知道自己的执拗与自私已经深深伤害到了丈夫和父母，可她仍旧坚持从...
评分每当我看完一本书，或者不等看完，脑子里就会对那本书有个印象，很多时候最终会归结成一个句子或一个词语，有时候如灵光乍现，也有的时候是慢慢慢慢地像滴水穿石。我如果写书评，通常会用那些句子或词语做标题。 扯远了，似乎。读《第五个孩子》的时候，脑子里的句子是...
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lenient, precise, cruel.
评分sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分很难想象这么拖沓，这么不可怕不可信的毫无想象力的小说的作者是诺贝尔文学奖获得者。或者诺贝尔文学奖其实不过也只是《楚天都市报》编辑的水平。
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