Description: Clarice Lispector's best-selling masterpiece--"her finest book" (The Nation)--now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son
Brief description: Paulo Gurgel Valente was born in Washington, DC, in 1953, while his father was stationed in the Brazilian embassy. He has published books on economics and finance.
Review Quotes: I'm really obsessed by this writer from Brazil, Clarice Lispector. I love her because she writes whole novels where not one thing happens--she describes the air. I think she's such a great, great novelist.--John Waters