“After reading Near to the Wild Heart, one thing is easy to understand: Lispector wasn't called 'Hurricane Clarice' because of her breakthrough into the literary scene, but because her words tear into your mind and leave a trail of devastation.”

— The Coffin Factory

“One of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing and mystifying writers.”

— The L Magazine

“Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself. ”

— The Times Literary Supplement

“Writing like this could only be the product of a sublime creative purge, an incomprehensible, compulsive flowing-out response to the raw intake of being human and everything that that is and means. ”

— The Brooklyn Rail

“Lispector's novels offer a stark counterpoint to much of modern life's focus on individual fame. ”

— The Boston Globe

“That Lispector could write such a complete and satisfying coming-of-age story at twenty-three is proof — were any needed — that she was always ahead of the game. ”

— Scott Esposito, Barnes & Noble Review

“After reading Near to the Wild Heart, one thing is easy to understand: Lispector wasn't called 'Hurricane Clarice' because of her breakthrough into the literary scene, but because her words tear into your mind and leave a trail of devastation. ”

— The Coffin Factory

“A truly remarkable writer.”

— Jonathan Franzen