The Chandelier New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2001) All it takes is about

All it takes is about one hour of exercise a day

AKA The Rudest Man In London™

is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date

Amy’s newfound confidence wavers

a book that frequently discloses to a king what calculating and sometimes brutal measures he must carry out to preserve the state and the common good

The Chandelier New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2001) All it takes is aboutClarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time. Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape her, she moves through life, grasping for the truth of existence. Illuminating Virginia's progress through intense