Limsuirar | Clarice

One afternoon, while waiting for the bus, she watched a cockroach cross the sidewalk. It moved with a terrible, unapologetic purpose. And Ana felt, for the first time, a crack in her chest—not pain, but a slit through which something raw and unnamed began to breathe.

Toby nodded.

Near to the Wild Heart (1943) – Her debut novel that took the Brazilian literary world by storm.