Described by Clarice Lispector as the best one, this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece All Ive got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-withou...Daugiau...
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the...Daugiau...
One of the very great writers of the last century Guardian Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before Colm Tóibķn Hed wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned Lóri yea...Daugiau...
Clarice Lispectors masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a...Daugiau...
One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century Colm Tóibķn She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. Sh...Daugiau...
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who dont know what to do with themselves....Daugiau...
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved....Daugiau...
As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction...Daugiau...
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...Daugiau...
