🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£9.00
RRP: £9.99
Save £0.99 (10%)
Dispatched within 2-3 working days.

The Passion According to G.H

Penguin Modern Classics

By (author) Clarice Lispector
Translated by Idra Novey
Format: Paperback / softback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 6th Feb 2014
Dimensions: w 131mm h 192mm d 19mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN-10: 0141197358
ISBN-13: 9780141197357
Barcode No: 9780141197357
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women 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 spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression. Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works. Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. 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 sailed to 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 Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel. Many felt she had given Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of Portuguese literature. After living variously in Italy, the UK, Switzerland and the US, in 1959, Lispector with her children returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels including The Passion According to G.H. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New£9.00
+ FREE UK P & P

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
Brilliant ... Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce * Los Angeles Times * One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers -- Orhan Pamuk The premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century * The New York Times Book Review *