Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector War or peace

War or peace

and his one great love become victims of the Nazis and their Fascist enablers

Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family

and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich

a disregarded samurai determined to recover his family's standing

Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector War or peaceClarice 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