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English
Penguin
03 December 2019
Available in English for the first time, The Chandelier is one of Lispector's most radical books and a key part of what made her a Brazilian legend

'She found the best clay that one could desire- white, supple, sticky,

cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could

shape a world'

Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as

a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her

dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel,

through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape

her, she moves through life, grasping for the truth of existence.

Illuminating Virginia's progress through intense flashes of image,

sensation and perception, The Chandelier, Lispector's landmark second novel, is a disorienting and exhilarating portrait of one woman's inner life.
By:  
Translated by:   ,
Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   239g
ISBN:   9780241371343
ISBN 10:   0241371341
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for The Chandelier

Prolific and peerless ... a Brazilian national treasure ... Clarice sought a knowledge beyond knowledge, a wisdom that left wisdom behind ... through her texts emerges the struggle of life: how to live each day, what the painful process of loving is, why one should pick up a pen and respond to indignity in the first place -- Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *


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