Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.-- "The Times Literary Supplement"

We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable style. Go out and buy it.-- "The Guardian" (6/21/2012 12:00:00 AM)

It is jarring and yet restorative to read a writer whose focus is so private, internal.-- "Boston Globe" (6/21/2012 12:00:00 AM)

One of 20th-century Brazil's most intriguing and mystifying writers.-- "The L Magazine" (6/21/2012 12:00:00 AM)

There's a feeling of encountering something completely new and classic at the same time.-- "Time Out Chicago"

I had a sort of missionary urge with her...but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves?--Benjamin Moser "San Francisco Chronicle" (6/14/2012 12:00:00 AM)

A truly remarkable writer.--Jonathan Franzen

Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O'Brien, Borges and Pessoa... utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.--Colm Tóibín

You could breeze through it, you could let it marinate, or you could reread it twice in one sitting.-- "Vanity Fair" (5/4/2023 12:00:00 AM)

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Pub date: 2012-06-13

Length: 220 pages