Name: The Besieged City
ISBN: 9780811226714

Clarice Lispector

At last in English, and sure to be a revelation to her fans, Clarice Lispector's third book is unlike any of her other novels--it even has a happy ending

The Besieged City

Dora Tominic

The sentences in this book are incantations.

'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.