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Near To The Wild Heart
  • Published: 14 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197340
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99
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Near To The Wild Heart

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14 Mar 2014
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28 Apr 2022
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The sensational debut novel of one of the 20th century's greatest modernist writers

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'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father, through her marriage to the faithless Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in the world. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are.
  • Published: 14 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197340
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for Near To The Wild Heart

The first fiery novel by the Brazilian national treasure

Carlos Valladares, Gagosian Quarterly

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

One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers

Orhan Pamuk

Lispector's novels offer a stark counterpoint to much of modern life's focus on individual fame

The Boston Globe

A truly remarkable writer

Jonathan Franzen

A genius

Colm Tóibín, Guardian

Brilliant ... Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce

Los Angeles Times