Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics
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 Gra a 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.
Her last and perhaps greatest novel
*Americas*
Her finest book
*The Nation*
Her searing last novel ... mesmerizing
*Vogue*
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