Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector includes the egg sellers and

includes the egg sellers and faded bullfighters surrounding Fortunata as well as the quieter

a disregarded samurai determined to recover his family's standing

Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family

leaving the glamour of St Petersburg's social life to take up residence at his uncle's country estate

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

Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector includes the egg sellers andClarice 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