{"product_id":"the-besieged-city","title":"The Besieged City","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow in paperback, The Besieged City―Clarice Lispector’s electrifying third novel―tells of a shallow girl becoming a desirable but highly materialistic woman in a rough-and-ready town\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrécia. Clarice Lispector’s heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: “Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The object―the thing,” Lispector once remarked, “always fascinated me and in a certain sense destroyed me. In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing. The thing is a specialized and immobilized animal.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e • Author: Clarice Lispector • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation • Format: Paperback • ISBN: 9780811238502 • Ships direct from distributor in 3–7 business days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Leaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45382093602860,"sku":"9780811238502","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0697\/2234\/1420\/files\/9780811238502.jpg?v=1773451995","url":"https:\/\/cedarleafbooks.com\/products\/the-besieged-city","provider":"Cedar Leaf Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}