The Imitation of the Rose

£12.99

by Lispector, Clarice | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 25/05/2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Little Clothbound Classics series
Hardback | 192 pages

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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.

The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man’s abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

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Weight 208 g
Dimensions 167 × 119 × 21 mm