The Besieged City

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ISBN9780241371374
AuthorsClarice Lispector
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
FormatPaperback
Number of pages224
Weight (kg)0.170
Publishing Date01/08/2019
Price (excl. tax)€13.92
Tax€0.84
Price (incl. tax)€14.76
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''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.