Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector and a deadly game of

and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich

a young woman forced by the Borgias to stay by his side

War or peace

Ignoring the values of her traditional community

Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector and a deadly game ofClarice Lispector's sensational, prize winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just 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 Otvio and on to her decision to make her own way in the world. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional