Show Notes
Anna and Geoff discuss the Dublin Literary Award winner, Gliff by Ali Smith.
Our book of the week is HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector translated by Benjamin Moser. Lispector was the Ukrainian-Brazilian novelist writing from the 1940s to 1970s who is widely referenced and is having a moment on BookTube and BookTok. She was compared with Virginia Woolf and Cubist artists. A short book (80 pages) but not a quick read as we discovered. Geoff has an intriguing theory about the first section (spoiler alert). Anna found it too abstract and meta but maybe it all makes sense?
Apologies for the audio quality, Anna's microphone was not working (we realised belatedly)!
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