Name: Rosebud Bookshop - March Portuguese Literature Book Club
Start: 2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-21T20:30:00+00:00
Location: R. de Cedofeita 634

Join us for our first Portuguese literature book club where we will be reading Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
About this Event

Welcome to the Rosebud Bookshop - March Portuguese Literature Book Club where we will be reading and discussing Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector.

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.

This is an in person event taking place at R. de Cedofeita, 634.

Order your book through Rosebud and receive a 10% discount!

Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Moderator: Julia (@_mendesju_)