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The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
The Besieged City

Clarice Lispector

The Besieged City

Clarice Lispector with Giovanni Pontiero

160 pages first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction literary challenging mysterious slow-paced
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The story of a bustling Brazilian suburb in the 1920s, as seen through the eyes of Lucretia. Hungry for freedom, but tied down by a widowed, self-pitying mother and inappropriate suitors, Lucretia tries both marriage and infidelity. A widow, she r...

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