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New Directions paperbook volume 1212
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"The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa-a typist who lives in the slums of Rio-underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free"--
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Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors-soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus-are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with São Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, São Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive-a viaduct-it...
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""It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in three chapters, with three central characters, The Apple in the Dark is in fact highly sculpted, while being chiefly a metaphysical book, and in this stunning new translation, the novel's mysteries and allegories glow with a fresh...
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Works volume 10
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Español
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Sobre el telón de fondo de unos nebulosos años veinte, La ciudad sitiada pone en paralelo magistralmente la crónica de la transformación de São Geraldo, ciudad del interior inmersa en una inexorable etapa de crecimiento, con el proceso de liberación de Lucrécia Neves, una mujer sitiada, asfixiada por la urbe y sus habitante...
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