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A Hora da Estrela

Clarice Lispector · 1995

This is one of Lispector's best books, and it gives you a deep sense of the life of one unfortunate woman, Macabéa. Macabéa is part of a huge migration in Brazil--of unemployed Northerners who try for a better life in the big cities of the Southeast. Macabéa embodies the ugliest, cruelest stereotypes that Brazilians hold about people from the North: she is unwashed, uneducated, unhealthy, and ugly. Macabéa tries to find her footing in São Paulo, but life is not kind to her