Description: "The best one," as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel
Brief description: General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions, Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector; Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; and The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters.
Review Quotes: A mind-bending, metaphysical novel of the psyche...abstract, yes, and languid in pacing, yet pointedly attentive to detail.--Max Gray "Chicago Review of Books"