The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
$18.61
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2025
Summary
The Existential Glimmer: Haunting Tales by Lispector
Celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books with 90 classic titles
‘One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century’ - Colm Tóibín
A housewife’s life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each uncovering new truths.
In this selection of haunting short stories, Lispector reveals the permeable boundaries between past and present, the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241752357 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241752353 |
| Series: | Penguin Archive |
| Author: | Clarice Lispector |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 110mm x 7mm |
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About The Author
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
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