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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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...
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用户评价
sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分lenient, precise, cruel.
评分lenient, precise, cruel.
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
评分Happiness. That is what we all want.
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