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The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab?a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor... Read Full Overview

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like... Read Full Overview

In the ravishing new translation by Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star--"her finest book" (The Nation)--is narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., who tells the story of Macab?a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and barely scraping... Read Full Overview

In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.