Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Paperback
Staff Picks: "Has any novel ever come closer to the inner workings of the human body, muscle by muscle? Written by the twenty-two year old Lispector in a tiny rented room, it bursts with the intimate discovery of her own genius, in the character of the ever-changing Joana who defies her father and her husband to transcend the limitations placed on women in 1940s Brazilian society and burn (as Lispector would title another novel) "the hour of the star.""