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  • Published: 28 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241600504
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Near To The Wild Heart




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: 28 April 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241600504
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

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Praise for Near To The Wild Heart

A genius

Colm Tóibín, Guardian

A truly remarkable writer

Jonathan Franzen

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

Los Angeles Times

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 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