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Family Ties by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's... -
The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithThirteen short... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from... -
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector 9780811228718
Booksplease Price: £12.99The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane... -
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest way to see herself'Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently... -
The Chandelier Clarice Lispector 9780241371343
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender... -
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector 9780811227933
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing... -
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector 9780811219624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector 9780811219907
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.33A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal... -
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Toibin'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she... -
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Clarice 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... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780241371350
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780811226752
Booksplease Price: £17.03"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the... -
The Besieged City Clarice Lispector 9780811238502
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.82Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrecia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector 9780811220026
Booksplease Price: £13.72Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented... -
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £3.00Booksplease Price: £2.63'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern:... -
The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type... -
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector 9780811232210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.04Lori, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance... -
The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit by Clarice Lispector 9781681378985
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 9780811219686
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.93The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and,... -
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.17The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when... -
Covert Joy: Selected Stories Clarice Lispector 9780811238878
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.12This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World,""Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken."... -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector 9780811230049
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.10The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of... -
Todas las cronicas / All the Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9788466381789
Booksplease Price: £16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788466381789Author Clarice LispectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint -
Antonio by Beatriz Bracher 9780811227384
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Benjamin, on the verge of becoming a father, discovers a tragic family secret involving patrimony and determines to get to the root of. Those most immediately involved are all dead, but their three... -
Cousins by Aurora Venturini 9780571372393
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23** With an introduction by Mariana Enriquez **A Granta Book of the Year'Cruel and strange and colourful.' Catherine Lacey 'Brimming with life, humour and a vital twist of darkness.' Alexandra Kleeman... -
Paradise Rot: A Novel by Jenny Hval 9781804294529
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder."Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickJo is in a strange new country for university and having... -
Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 9781804270387
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarket, visits friends and gossips with... -
The Impostor: and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride... -
Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane 9781911508366
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £8.93Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing... -
Spontaneous Acts Yoko Tawada 9780349704234
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.60The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.Patrik is a literary researcher living in Berlin, a city just coming back to life after lockdown. Though... -
Cannibal Translation Volume 44: Literary Reciprocity in Contemporary Latin America by Isabel Gómez 9780810145962
Booksplease Price: £110.15A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann 9780241555842
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived...