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Hour of the Star

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By (author): Clarice Lispector

Translated by: Benjamin Moser

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 78g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Feb 2014
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141392035

About Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (Author) Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920 but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she was just twenty-three and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977 shortly after the publication of her final novel The Hour of the Star.Benjamin Moser (Translator) Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence was recognized with Brazil's State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. His most recent book Sontag: Her Life won the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Utrecht in the central Netherlands.

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