The Hour of the Star

📚 81 pages

In this ravishing new Benjamin Moser translation, Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star—”her finest book” (The Nation)—tells the haunting story of Macabéa, an underfed, unattractive, and unloved typist who lives in the slums of Rio. Yet for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be.