The Passion According to G.H
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2014
Summary
A disoriented and confused young woman looks back on her life and her place in the world.
New to Penguin Modern Classics.
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white ‘as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed’. There she sees a cockroach – black, dusty, prehistoric – crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritua…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141197357 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141197358 |
| Author: | Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 12mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Brilliant … Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce
Brilliant … Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce * Los Angeles Times *One of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers – Orhan PamukThe premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century * The New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Clarice Lispector
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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