{"product_id":"near-to-the-wild-heart-9780811220026","title":"Near to the Wild Heart","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLispector, Clarice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eClarice Lispector\u003c\/strong\u003e (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called \"astounding\" (Rachel Kushner), \"a penetrating genius\" (Donna Seaman, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e), and \"one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers\" (Orhan Pamuk).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntrekin, Alison:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eAlison Entrekin\u003c\/strong\u003e has translated a number of works by Brazilian and Portuguese authors into English, including \u003cem\u003eCity of God\u003c\/em\u003e by Paulo Lins and \u003cem\u003eBudapest\u003c\/em\u003e by Chico Buarque.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoser, Benjamin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Moser\u003c\/strong\u003e, the author of \u003cem\u003eWhy This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector\u003c\/em\u003e, is the editor of ND's Clarice Lispector translation series, of which this is the ninth volume. For \u003cem\u003eSontag: Her Life and Work\u003c\/em\u003e, he won the Pulitzer Prize.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50586201751826,"sku":"9780811220026","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_695e47b4-22c7-4aa9-96b7-6a208db68efc.jpg?v=1732042731","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/near-to-the-wild-heart-9780811220026","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}