an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway
A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR
the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers
in order to: confront the man who left them
An unforgettably creepy child narrator weaves uncanny tales about her new stepmother in this feminist horror novella + short story collection that introduces a unique new voice in Japanese literature
Near to the Wildheart Audre Lorde an ageing painter and widowerClarice 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