Besieged City
''One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century'' Colm Tóibín
''She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself''
Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia ...
''One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century'' Colm Tóibín
''She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself''
Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia ...
