Fiction - World Literature - Brazil
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As If by MagicNothing is as it seems in the sinuous tales of Brazilian master Edgard Telles RibeiroA son embarks on a journey involving a disappearing suitcase, secret police, and a strange letter, while pursuing a father who appears to have fallen victim to Alzheimer's disease. A...
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Barren LivesOne of the greatest classics of Brazilian literature, Barren Lives (Vidas Secas) by Graciliano Ramos, depicts the harsh reality of a family of migrants in the Northeastern semi-arid lands, facing a relentless drought and the struggle for survival. Fabiano, his wife Ms. Victoria, their...
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Bury Your DeadBy the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is BeneathEdgar Wilson has a gruesome job, one he is entirely unsentimental about--he cleans up roadkill in rural Brazil. But one day vultures are circling in the woods, and he can't not...
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Cabaret in FlamesHache Pueyo returns after But Not Too Bold with her new novella Cabaret in Flames, where Interview with the Vampire meets Certain Dark Things in an alternate-Brazil where brutal flesh-hungering Guls stalk the night streets and manipulate the government from their glittering cabaret Guls...
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Complete StoriesHere, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we...
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Covert Joy: Selected StoriesThis radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World,""Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken." Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is...
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Crooked PlowThe prize winning international bestseller - 800,000 copies sold in Brazil Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she...
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DioramaAfter years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father. In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect:...
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Exemplary HumansJULIANA LEITE MAKES HER ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DEBUT WITH A NOVEL ABOUT ONE WOMAN'S PAST AND ALL OF OUR FUTURESEver since the unnamed threat took over, 100-year-old Natália has been stuck inside her Rio de Janeiro apartment, alone. Well, not entirely alone--her loved ones may be...
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Jungle of AshesA sweeping tale of ambition, resistance, and impossible love set in Henry Ford's ill-fated rubber empire in the Amazon.In 1928, industrial titan Henry Ford set out to conquer the Brazilian rainforest, determined to grow his own rubber and free his company from British control....
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La Hora de la Estrella / The Hour of the StarCon La hora de la estrella Clarice Lispector puso el punto final a una gran carrera que constituyó uno de los momentos más altos de la literatura brasileña moderna. «Lispector escribía como si nadie antes hubiese escrito. Fue uno de los genios del siglo...
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Macunaíma: The Hero with No CharacterHere at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their Amazon home for...
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Memorial de AyresJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis has been hailed as one of Latin America's greatest writers, a progenitor of modernism and a masterful ironist known for his inspired critiques of nineteenth-century Brazil. Memorial de Ayres is his final novel, released just two months before his...
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PandoraConfined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance--with a pangolin.Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand...
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Saving the FireThe highly anticipated new novel from the author of the Booker-shortlisted international sensation Crooked Plow Moisés lives with his father and sister in a Brazilian village dominated by the local monastery. His mother having died mysteriously, Moisés is raised by his sister Luzia, a...
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Solitaria"Solitaria is a gem." --Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments For fans of Fernanda Melchor and Tove Ditlevsen, a raw, propulsive novel by an award-winning Afro-Brazillian novelist about a Black mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for a rich family...
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The Apple in the Dark"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in three chapters,...
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The FrontWinner of the São Paulo Prize for Best Book of the Year, The Front by Edimilson de Almeida Pereira introduces us to a nameless figure who refers to himself only as a "man-tree." He lives beneath the din of police helicopters and beside an...
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The Jaguar's RoarIn 1817, two German scientists traveled across Brazil and into the Amazon gathering flora and fauna to study and display in Europe. Among the collection they brought to the Bavarian court were two Indigenous children. The children's images became widespread, satisfying European curiosity about...
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The Loneliest Tree in the WorldThis whimsical novel by a beloved Brazilian writer follows a family of tobacco farmers through the eyes of various objects in their home--an old mirror, a pickup truck, a protective work smock, and a sick, loving tree On a small tobacco farm in the...
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