Hour of the Star - Penguin Edition Henk Wildschut offering fragments of forgotten narratives

offering fragments of forgotten narratives and glimpses of alternatives perspectives

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Hour of the Star - Penguin Edition Henk Wildschut offering fragments of forgotten narrativesLiving in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macaba loves movies, Coca Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S. M., who tries to direct Macaba's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself,