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  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630846
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99

The Imitation of the Rose



Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630846
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99

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