Clarice Lispector: The Besieged City (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New It has the searing clarity

It has the searing clarity of truth

thoughtful and probing' Guardian

Celebration leads to tragedy

The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories

Clarice Lispector: The Besieged City (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New It has the searing clarity'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest way to see herself' Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrecia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond