The Chandelier Author:Clarice Lispector In paperback, Clarice Lispector?s explosive and surprising second novelThe Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of ?Hurricane Clarice.? — Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a de... more »caying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia's internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic excavation of Virginia's thoughts, revealing the drama of Clarice?s lifelong quest to discover ?the nucleus made of a single instant??and displaying a new face of this great writer, blazing with the vitality of youth.« less