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Book SynopsisThis new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
Trade Review"Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself." -- The Times Literary Supplement
"Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O’Brien, Borges and Pessoa… utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing." -- Colm Tóibín
"A truly remarkable writer." -- Jonathan Franzen
"We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable style. Go out and buy it." -- The Guardian
"It is jarring and yet restorative to read a writer whose focus is so private, internal." -- Boston Globe
"One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers." -- The L Magazine
"There's a feeling of encountering something completely new and classic at the same time." -- Time Out Chicago
"I had a sort of missionary urge with her...but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves?" -- Benjamin Moser - San Francisco Chronicle
"You could breeze through it, you could let it marinate, or you could reread it twice in one sitting." -- Vanity Fair
