Description: This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
Brief description: Alison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian and Portuguese authors into English, including City of God by Paulo Lins and Budapest by Chico Buarque.
Review Quotes: Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.-- "The Times Literary Supplement"