An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice LispectorA lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out.This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosmic changes that enrich us and destroy us at the dawn of love.

Her brilliant and bewildering style is helping me to imagine how to write again -- Jenny Offill The Times
One of the very great writers of the last century Guardian
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures teaches us how to love. And how love lies in spaces. In waiting -- Carlos Valladares Gagosian Quarterly
Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before -- Colm Tóibín

Clarice Lispector (Author)Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

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