The Imitation of the RoseIntroducing Little Clothbound Classics irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award winning Coralie Bickford Smith The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo