{"product_id":"near-to-the-wild-heart","title":"Near To The Wild Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Clarice Lispector, Translated to English by Alison Entrekin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNear to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cspan\u003eClarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called \"astounding\" (Rachel Kushner), \"a penetrating genius\" (Donna Seaman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ), and \"one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers\" (Orhan Pamuk). Alison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian and Portuguese authors into English, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity of God\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Paulo Lins and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBudapest\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Chico Buarque. General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions,BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSontag: Her Life and Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, will be published in October.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"spec shippingdimensions-spec \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003eShipping dimensions\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003e8\" H x 5\" W x 1\" L\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"spec upc-spec \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb class=\"label\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003e9780811220026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003eLanguage: English \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan class=\"value\"\u003eLemgth: 220 pgs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SAUDADE TORONTO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49004557140191,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1251\/1761\/files\/FullSizeRender_0eb5e560-2b17-472b-a617-a8de965d6c35.jpg?v=1776889731","url":"https:\/\/saudadetoronto.com\/products\/near-to-the-wild-heart","provider":"SAUDADE TORONTO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}