An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241371367
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.00

An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

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2 Jul 2021
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6 Apr 2021
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A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector

A 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.
  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241371367
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.00
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Praise for An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures teaches us how to love. And how love lies in spaces. In waiting

Carlos Valladares, Gagosian Quarterly

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

Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before

Colm Tóibín