Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.

Details

ISBN13: 9780241337608
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 64
Edition:
Publication Date: 26 Feb 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 16.1(H)x11.2(L)x0.5(W)47
Weight (gm): 47

Author Biography

Clarice Lispector (Author) 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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