"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not...
A Heart So White
In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse...
The Counterfeiters
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the...
Fictions
Mario Vargas Llosa wrote about Borges as follows: "His is a world of clear, pure and at the same...
Alone in Berlin
According to Primo Levi, Alone in Berlin is "the greatest book ever written about the German...
Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was one of the most blistering and innovative twentieth century writers of the...
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector's prize-winning debut novel was published in 1943 when she was twenty-three...
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Aristocratic, rich and seemingly aloof, the Finzi-Contini family fascinate the narrator of this...