Family Ties

Laços de família

Editor's Recommendation:
★ Highly recommended by Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and Booker Prize winner Colm Tóibín, a famous Irish writer★ Clarice Lispector, one of Brazil's contemporary classic writers, is hailed as the most important Jewish writer since Kafka and a truly unique writer in Latin American literature. This is a classic collection of short stories focusing on the fate and inner world of women, especially housewives. ★ Family Ties was published in 1960 and received unanimous praise from critics. The following year, it won the Yabuti Literary Award in the short story category. Fernando Sabino, a close friend of Clarice Lispector, said that "(this book) is definitely the best collection of short stories ever published in Brazil."
Family Ties (Short Classics Collection)
At a crossroads, she fell into the fate of a woman. An important Jewish writer after Kafka internalized writing as his ultimate destiny. Clarice Lispector's classic short story collection, Family Ties, published in 1960, includes thirteen brilliantly conceived stories, telling the stories of the following characters with clumsy lives: Anna always arranges her life and that of her family in perfect order, but when she sees a blind man chewing gum, her "truth" completely disintegrates; women long confined to family life become drunk, either intentionally or unintentionally, thereby challenging their husbands or male authority; an old woman is the reason for the family's annual gathering, but almost no one truly cares about her, so she can only express her contempt in her own way; and a hen that flees in panic. Only in the dead of night, in the open space of the kitchen, can she express her own small truth in a very clumsy way...

2021-05-01

人民文学出版社

139

9787020155620