Clarice Lispector: The Besieged City (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New ***** 'A superb recipe for

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Clarice Lispector: The Besieged City (Penguin Modern Classics) [2019] paperback Condition:New ***** 'A superb recipe for'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest way to see herself' Lucrecia 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, Lucrecia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond