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The hour of the star

Clarice Lispector (Author), Colm Tóibín (Writer of introduction), Paulo Gurgel Valente, Benjamin Moser (Translator)
"The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa-a typist who lives in the slums of Rio-underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free"-- Provided by publisher

Print Book, English, 2020
Centennial edition
New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 2020