Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'.
Clarice Lispector (Author)
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer.
Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was
born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I
and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and
eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the
Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next
year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel.
She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel,
The Hour of the Star.
Brilliant ... Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and
Joyce
*Los Angeles Times*
The first fiery novel by the Brazilian national treasure
*Gagosian Quarterly*
A genius
*Guardian*
A truly remarkable writer
*Jonathan Franzen*
Lispector's novels offer a stark counterpoint to much of modern
life's focus on individual fame
*The Boston Globe*
One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers
*Orhan Pamuk*
The originality of Near to the Wild Heart lies in its technique and
language: self conscious, bleakly humourous, but poetic ... We now
finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable
style. Go out and buy it.
*Observer*
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