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Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld – October
House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In October, we will be reading Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, a genre-blurring and formally audacious novel translated by Benjamin Moser.
Tickets
As always, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597 365380.
About the book
Lispector’s final novel is among her best — a haunting exploration of innocence, femininity, illness, and identity-slippage. The Hour of the Star follows MacabΓ©a, a typist living in the slums of Rio whose grasp on reality is confused and oblique. Yet, as our narrator Rodrigo S.M. comes to realize, MacabΓ©a’s tenuous existence also affords her an inner freedom. Publisher’s WeeklyΒ has called Lispector a ‘literary magician’, and this novel certainly contains enough wonder, will, and beauty to merit that description.