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Near to the Wild Heart

By: Clarice Lispector
Narrated by: Rebecca Morris
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This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a 23-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce - "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life."

The book was an unprecedented sensation - the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims, "I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt."

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She was a genius. She reinvented language and meaning. Where logic lacks raw feelings come in.

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tiresome. very hard read. no real story just 6 hours of pretentious thoughts that run on like a mad woman.

not an enjoyable book.

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