The Passion According to G.H. (New Directions Books)

Lispector€s most shocking novel.

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector€s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid€s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door €•crushing the cockroach €•and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature€¦

Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that €œbest corresponded to her demands as a writer.€