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The Chandelier

By Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards (Translator), Benjamin Moser (Translator)
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By Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards (Translator), Benjamin Moser (Translator)
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In paperback, Clarice Lispector’s explosive and surprising second novel

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of “Hurricane Clarice.”

Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia's internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, L...

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