The Hour of the Star - a novel

20th September 2006 with 1 Comment

In this short novel, Clarice Lispector narrates the life of Macabéa, a girl from the North East of Brazil, recently arrived in the red light district of Rio de Janeiro. The novel, a writers’ novel if ever there was one, is a compassionate feminist study of an alienated and marginalized girl who has no imperative [...]

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