"The Apple in the Dark is a retelling, a reversal, a recasting of the creation myth: a very unlikely bestseller, its very, very different from anything else she ever wrote. If you put it between The Besieged City, which comes before it, and The Passion According to G. H., which comes after, youll see just how radically experimental she was: how little she repeated herself, how she made it new every single time." -- Benjamin Moser "A fitting capstone to a remarkable publishing endeavor." -- Sophia Stewart - The Millions "An experimental novel about becoming, existing, and being remade: seductive." -- Kirkus Reviews "May we all, after reading The Apple in the Dark, stand in the calm profundity of the mystery." -- Carlos Valladares - Frieze "This existential epic of a desperate criminalstands among Lispectors finest and most enigmatic achievements." -- Publishers Weekly (starred) ""What in other hands might make for the premise behind a noir novel, Clarice Lispector uses to explore metaphysical questions of being, of existence expressed in a coiling language in which concrete nouns torque into abstract conceptions pushing sense to the limits of coherenceThe Apple in the Dark represents Lispector at the height of her creative powers." -- Tom Bowden - The Book Beat "Puzzling and dazzling." -- Margarita Diaz - Cleveland Review of Books "A mind-bending, metaphysical novel of the psyche...abstract, yes, and languid in pacing, yet pointedly attentive to detail." -- Max Gray - Chicago Review of Books
