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The Besieged City

✍ Scribed by Clarice Lispector

Book ID: 100172066
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 1949, 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 179 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 014198953X

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✦ Synopsis

'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín

** 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself'**

Lucrécia 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, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

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