About the Book: The Passion According to G.H
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as
clear and white as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been
removed. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out
of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistible
fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she
questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her
towards an act of shocking transgression. Clarice Lispectors spare, deeply
disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly,
and is one