She is quite a thing to discover indeed. -- The Los Angeles Times
[Lispector] left behind an astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside it. -- Bookforum
Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself. -- The Times Literary Supplement
Over time, I've come to admire and even love this novel. In fact, as soon as I slammed the book shut, my understanding of G.H.'s story began to take on an almost-corporeal reality. Trying to put this into words is a slippery thing. What I was beginning to appreciate was that I could not consider Lispector's philosophical concerns for any length of time without losing my grasp on those concerns, yet I could somehow feel them, sense the substance of them in my own mind, in those deep pools of thought where language doesn't quite reach, and which words can't express. -- Emma Komlos-Hrobsky - Tin House
Lispector's prose is unforgettable... still startling by the end because of Lispector's unsettling forcefulness. -- Boston Globe
A lyrical, stream of consciousness meditation on the nature of time, the unreliability of language, the divinity of God, and the threat of hell. -- The Rumpus
One of 20th-century Brazil's most intriguing and mystifying writers. -- The L Magazine
I had a sort of missionary urge with her... but I started thinking, even when I was 19: How can I help this person reach the prominence she deserves? -- San Francisco Chronicle
A penetrating genius. -- Donna Seaman - Booklist