The Passion According To G H Clarice Lispector Idea Novey Translation by Clarice Lispector, Idea Novey (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor), Caetano Veloso (introduction) 9780811220699, 0811220699 instant download after payment.

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G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. The sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis, at the height which comes one of the most famous & most genuinely shocking scenes in Latin American literature. Clarice Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.” 

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Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, & Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father & two sisters, & she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, & the United States, until they separated & she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer. 

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), & “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).

Caetano Veloso is one of Brazil's foremost musicians.

Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novels Those Who Knew & Ways to Disappear. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.