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Also by Clarice Lispector:

Covert Joy, April 2025
Hardcover / e-Book

COVERT JOY
By: Clarice Lispector

Selected Stories

New Directions
April 2025
On Sale: April 1, 2025
158 pages
ISBN: 0811238873
EAN: 9780811238878
Kindle: B0DFV1W7SV
Hardcover / e-Book
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Novella / Short Story

From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction

This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector’s best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as “The Smallest Woman in the World,”“Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” Lispector’s luminous regard for life’s small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:

Joy would always be covert for me… Sometimes I’d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy.I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover

Introduction by Rachel Kushner.