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The woman who killed the fish and other stories for children

While explaining to her sons why their fish is dead, the author relates stories of memorable animals in her life.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lispector, Clarice (Author)
Other Authors:	Moser, Benjamin (Translator), Bantjes, Marian (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Portuguese
Published:	[New York], NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
Subjects:	Domestic animals > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Short stories. Domestic fiction.
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Summary:	While explaining to her sons why their fish is dead, the author relates stories of memorable animals in her life.
Item Description:	Originally published in Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro by Ed. Sabiá in 1968 under title: Mulher que matou os peixes.
Physical Description:	62 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9780811229609 0811229602
Author Notes:	Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, and Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father and two sisters, and she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, and the United States, until they separated and she returnedto Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil's greatest modern writer. New Directions publishes eighteen of her books. General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions,Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector ; Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters .