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Near to the Wild HeartNear to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called Hurricane Clarice: a twenty three year old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life. The book was an unprecedented sensation the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her

She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity at her and she senses a mounting threat that lies 'just beyond the garden gate

Lesley-Ann Noel

Set across the rambling orchards of a childhood in the Turkish provinces and the smoke-filled cafes of European capitals

only three years since Europe was convulsed by workers’ revolutions

the European outpost of an award-winning Japanese pastry chef

Sarah Polley’s work as an actor

how identity is constructed

the Creative Director

In Kyo Maclear's tale of sisterly love

and Margaret Atwood

Each spectacular artwork is really three images in one: use the magic lens to reveal different layers to the environment you’re in

The Day Moon and Earth Had an Argument also includes two full spreads at the back of the book filled with fascinating facts about our solar system

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