Near to the Wild Heart

Brilliant … Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce * Los Angeles Times *
The first fiery novel by the Brazilian national treasure – Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
A genius – Colm Tóibín * 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. – JS Tennant * Observer *

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.

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