The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector Paperback Book 9780241371350

Described by Clarice Lispector as the best one this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical enigmatic masterpieceAll Ive got is hunger And that instable way of grasping an apple in the darkwithout letting it fallMartim believing that he has committed a murder flees the city and escapes into the night Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives in a state of fear and wonder at a remote ranch run by two women There Martim finds work and as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer becomes transfigured remade into something else entirelyTranslated by Benjamin Moser The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation TLS