A review by madsreb
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector

I really wish I’d read some background on this book before I picked it up. It nearly thwarted me!!! I wanted to throw it out but persevered thinking it could turn out to be an elaborate and very boring literary hoax. But in the second half something clicked and some shimmering little thread of narrative appeared, all those horses began to make a little bit of sense, and I warmed to Lucrécia just a little.

After reading the brief letter where Clarice Lispector (kind of) explains herself I’m looking forward to trying this book again in future. Just maybe not right now.

*shoves back into depths of TBR pile*