It appears however, that the ex-maid has conducted one final, ruthless tidying blitz, leaving the room as bare and antiseptic as in ‘an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed.’ The maid has recently moved out and G.H decides to declutter the space. We know her as G.H, the initials embossed on her leather suitcases, themselves stored in the maid’s room, where this metaphysical tale begins. Enlightenment, madness, or possibly both, await. Her initial attempt at extermination leaves the creature slowly dying in front of her eyes, a protracted process that sparks a full-blown existential crisis. A novel that demands the utmost concentration, this Brazilian modern classic tells the story of a somewhat intense sculptress, who discovers a large cockroach in her home. If your experience of transformative insect fiction is limited to the Kafkaesque, then it’s high time you met the ‘heralding quiver’ of cockroach antennae in The Passion According to G.H.
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