{"product_id":"9780241371350","title":"The Apple in the Dark","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Lispector, Clarice\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 5 October 2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 198 x 25 | 296g\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'Martim, 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 entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lispector, Clarice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666696278200,"sku":"9780241371350","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780241371350.jpg?v=1734758619","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780241371350","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}