by Clarice Lispector (Brazil; born in present-day Ukraine)
Paperback ISBN: 9780811219686
208 pages

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room and, in a moment of panic, kills a cockroach.

The encounter detonates a mystical crisis that pushes her into a radical confrontation with selfhood, disgust, faith, and the limits of language—one of Lispector’s most intense and transformative novels.

About the author

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. She studied law in Rio de Janeiro and published widely in Brazilian literary outlets while also working in journalism and cultural writing. Celebrated for her innovative, interior style and philosophical intensity, she is now regarded as one of the defining voices of twentieth-century Brazilian literature.

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