From the Bookshelf of Around the World in 80 Books…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
So I learned from the preface that Clarice Lispector was born to save her mother's life because according to folk superstitions, a woman could be cured of syphilis by becoming pregnant, and her mother had contracted the infection when she got raped by Russian soldiers :( But for the first nine years of her life, Clarice was watching her mother die, and she felt guilty for not being able to save her, so she started telling stories about how an angel, a saint, a god came to cure her :(
I thought of ...more
I thought of ...more
Jan 21, 2015
Isabel
marked it as to-read
Oct 06, 2019
Curlysue
marked it as to-read
May 28, 2024
Viviana Martinez
marked it as to-read
