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Visit product page →Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, ‘The Maias’ is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate?with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of José Saramago's ‘Blindness’), New Directions is proud to bring Eça de Queirós' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.
About the Author
Eça de Queiroz was born on November 25, 1845, in Póvoa de Varzim and is considered one of the greatest novelists in all of Portuguese literature, the first and main Portuguese realist writer, a profound and insightful author of literary prose.
He entered the Law Course in 1861, in Coimbra, where he associated with many of the future representatives of the Generation of 70. After finishing his studies, he founded the newspaper , in 1866, an organ in which he began his journalistic experience. In 1871, he gave the lecture "Realism as a new expression of Art", integrated into the Lisbon Casino Conferences and a product of the aesthetic evolution that led him towards the Realism-Naturalism of Flaubert and Zola. In the same year, he began, with Ramalho Ortigão, the publication of As Farpas, satirical chronicles of inquiry into Portuguese life.In 1872 he began his diplomatic career, during which he held the position of consul in Havana, Newcastle, Bristol, and Paris. It was, therefore, with the critical distance afforded by his experience living abroad that he conceived most of his novels, dedicated to the critique of Portuguese social life, among which stand out *O Primo Bazilio*, *O Crime do Padre Amaro*, *A Relíquia*, and *Os Maias*, the latter considered his masterpiece. He died on August 16, 1900, in Paris.
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Visit product page →Author Mia Sosa Language English.
One engagement. Two best friends. Three's a crowd.
On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn’t approve of. Now, almost a decade later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he’s secretly pined for since sophomore year, is engaged—and Javi didn’t even get the chance to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry.
A successful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, Mari is no longer seeking Javi’s dating advice or waiting for him to declare his love. Instead, she’s made a different pact—with herself. And to succeed, Mari’s vowing to build a future with someone who wants to commit to her.
With his life and career finally on track, Javi’s ready to confess his feelings. Except Mari’s changed the script and moved on without him. Javi has just six weeks to convince Mari this marriage is a flop. If that means he needs to ruffle some feathers to help her avert disaster, well, he’s up for the challenge. After all, isn’t that what best friends are for?About Author
Mia Sosa is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and contemporary romances that celebrate our multicultural world. She has received praise from The Washington Post, Bustle, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, POPSUGAR, BuzzFeed, Oprah Daily, and many more. A native of East Harlem and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, she lives in Maryland with her college sweetheart, their two book-obsessed daughters, a gentle Cavalier King Charles spaniel, and one adorable rescue cat that rules them all.
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9798217044306
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Visit product page →Author Gabriella Burnham Language: English
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears.
Elise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister Sophie calls to tell her their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years. When she arrives she discovers the ways in which her whip-smart little sister has had to make do without her.
The sisters soon learn that police stopped their mother on her way home from work and deported her to São Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school: monitoring endangered birds that have laid eggs on a remote beach. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Sheba—a gregarious socialite and heir to a famed children's toy company—reveals that she has inherited her grandfather’s summer mansion on Nantucket. What will Elise do when the new life she created in college collides with the life she left behind on the island? As she confronts the emotional and material realities that have fractured her family, she is confronted by a world in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind, too.About Author
Gabriella Burnham is the author of Wait and It Is Wood, It Is Stone, which was named a best book of the year by Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Good Housekeeping magazines. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Joseph’s College and has been awarded fellowships to MacDowell, where she was named a Harris Center Fellow, and Yaddo. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. She and her partner live in Brooklyn with their two rescue cats, Galleta and Franz.
Language English Print length 272 pages ISBN-10 0593596528 ISBN-13 978-0593596524 -
Visit product page →This collection of twenty-six stories is “a fine introduction to Latin American literature” ( The Washington Post Book World ).
This splendid collection of stories by twenty-six Latin American authors features the new voices and celebrated masters of one of the world's foremost literatures. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguities of Carlos Fuentes’ “The Doll Queen,” the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector’s “Love,” or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the parodically hard-boiled detective fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly soft-boiled criminals in Rubem Fonesca’s “Lonelyhearts.”
From erotic comedies by Isabel Allende and Jorge Amado to the playful labyrinths of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s London streets or Armonia Somers’ roomful of clocks, A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes reveals the virtuosity of Latin American literature at its finest, and provides an illuminating journey into dreamlike and unexpected worlds.Language English Print length 448 pages ISBN-10 0452268664 ISBN-13 978-0452268661 -
Sold outVisit product page →Author Jorge Amado translated to English by Harriet de Onis
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
Format553 pages, PaperbackPublishedSeptember 12, 2006 by VintageISBN9780307276643 (ISBN10: 0307276643)ASIN0307276643LanguageEnglish -
Visit product page →Author Euclide Da Cunha translated to English by Elizabeth Lowe.
An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature
Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society.
Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.Language English Print length 560 pages ISBN-10 9780143106074 ISBN-13 978-0143106074 -
Visit product page →Author: Leighton Gage Language: English
The Awana tribe, who live in the remote Amazon jungle in the Brazilian state of Pará, have dwindled to only 41 members—and now 39 of them have dropped dead of what looks like poison. The neighboring white townsfolk don’t seem to be mourning the genocide much—in fact, the only person who seems to care at all is Jade Calmon, the official tribal relations agent assigned to the area. She wants justice for the two survivors, a father and his 8-year-old son. But racism is deeply entrenched and no one is going to help her get to the truth.
Unfortunately, this is far from the first time the Brazilian federal police have had a tribal genocide to investigate. Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team are sent in from Brasilia to try to solve the increasingly complex case just as a local white man is discovered murdered. Someone has done their best to frame the surviving Awana man, and the town is about to erupt.Author
Leighton Gage writes the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, crime novels set in Brazil. He and his Brazilian-born wife divide their time between their home in Brazil and those of their children and grandchildren in Europe and the U.S.
Praise for the Chief Inspector:
Hard-hitting, atmospheric…. Despite their social conscience and ambitious reach, there's nothing stiff or programmatic about Mr. Gage's lively, action-filled chronicles. They have finely sketched characters, vivid geographical detail and their own brutal sort of humor. The vast size of Brazil, with its great economic and topographic differences, affords a diversity of locales. Each book is a bit of adventure-travel, with Silva and crew often feeling like tourists within their own country. Yet the Silva investigations have all the step-by-step excitement of a world-class procedural series…. The books' greatest appeal, though, is Silva. Even after five books and many glimpses into his past and present, he remains an enigma. The reader never knows what the detective might or might not do in order to balance the scales of justice. The Wall Street Journal
South America’s Kurt Wallander - Booklist
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Masterful - The Toronto Globe and Mail
Compelling - The Boston Globe
Fascinating, complex and riveting - Florida Sun Sentinel
Intelligent and subtle…suspenseful and sophisticated - Publisher’s Weekly
Highly recommended - Library Journal
Colorful characters and crackling banter - Kirkus ReviewsLanguage English Print length 352 pages ISBN-10 1616954779 ISBN-13 978-1616954772 -
Visit product page →Bilingual book: Portuguese and English
Um livro sobre Portugal heróico, desde a fundação do reino até aos nossos tempos e à história do futuro. Uma magnífica obra enriquecida com textos de Fernando Pessoa, Agostinho da Silva, Dalila Pereira da Costa e Gilbert Durand e aprimoradas artes gráficas. Ilustrada com pinturas e fotografia de personagens, monumentos, natureza viva, paisagens terrestres e marinhas do país atlântico e mediterrânico. Volume patrimonial em luxuosa edição bilingue (português-inglês), destinado a todos os públicos, apresenta Portugal a leitores nacionais e estrangeiros.
Um convite do filósofo português Rodrigo Sobral Cunha para uma grande viagem por terra e mar, com uma obra literária e patrimonial de referência em pensamento, para quem deseje conhecer a arte inventiva da nação mais antiga e universalista da Europa e que abriu a Europa ao mundo, propondo-se fazer um Mundo Novo
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Sold outVisit product page →From the winner of the prestigious FIL Prize in Romance Languages comes this masterpiece saga, set in the twilight of the late twentieth century, of two clashing families in coastal Portugal.
With the grand sweep of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, this enduring tale transports us to a picturesque seaside town haunted by its colonial past.
Considered one of Europe’s most influential contemporary writers, Portuguese novelist Lídia Jorge has captivated international audiences for decades. With the publication of The Wind Whistling in the Cranes, English-speaking readers can now experience the thrum of her signature poetic style and her delicately braided multicharacter plotlines, and witness the heroic journey of one of the most maddening, and endearing, characters in literary fiction.
Exquisitely translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Annie McDermott, this breathtaking saga, set in the now-distant 1990s, tells the story of the landlords and tenants of a derelict canning factory in southern Portugal. The wealthy, always-scheming Leandros have owned the building since before the Carnation Revolution, a peaceful coup that toppled a four-decade-long dictatorship and led to Portugal’s withdrawal from its African colonies. It was Leandro matriarch Dona Regina who handed the keys to the Matas, the bustling family from Cape Verde who saw past the dusty machinery and converted the space into a warm—and welcoming—home.
When Dona Regina is found dead outside the factory on a holiday weekend, her body covered in black ants, her granddaughter, Milene, investigates. Aware that her aunts and uncles, who are off on vacation, will berate her inability to articulate what has just happened, she approaches the factory riddled with anxiety. Hours later, the Matas return home to find this strange girl hiding behind their clotheslines, and with caution, they take her in . . .
“Some said that Milene had been found wandering near the golf course. . . . Still others that she must have spent those five days at the beach, eating raw fish and sleeping out in the open . . .”
Days later, the Leandros realize that Milene has become hopelessly entangled with their tenants, and their fear of political and financial ruin sets off a series of events that threatens to uproot the lives of everyone involved. Narrated with passionate, incandescent prose, The Wind Whistling in the Cranesestablishes Lídia Jorge as a novelist of extraordinary international resonance.
Language English Print length 528 pages ISBN-10 1631497596 ISBN-13 978-1631497599 -
Visit product page →the social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Brazil. These signature traits are on full display in Quincas Borba, a novel that sees Machado satirize a rapidly changing Rio de Janeiro.
Originally published in 1891, the story begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism.” Borba leaves his fortune—including his dog, also named Quincas Borba—to Rubião, his loyal caretaker and a schoolteacher by trade. Bestowed with opulence beyond his wildest dreams, Rubião is quickly coaxed into the comforts of a rich man’s life—the only stipulation being that he continues to care for the canine Quincas Borba with the same dedication he once did the human. Adrift in the big, bad, bustling world of late-1860s Rio de Janeiro, it isn’t long before Rubião is targeted by the city’s sycophants, who can smell his naïveté from a mile away.
Playfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, the novel is at once irreverent and ambitious, brimming with barbed wit and keen philosophical inquiry. Brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson—the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of Dom Casmurro, The Collected Stories, and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas—Quincas Borba is another strikingly modern tale from a blazing progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.Language English Print length 352 pages ISBN-10 1324096705 ISBN-13 978-1324096702 -
Sold outVisit product page →An unsettling novel that sets us among an isolated group of men whose bonds break down in ways both hard to comprehend and impossible to look away from
On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down.
But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the prison walls.
Ana Paula Maia delivers a bracing vision of our potential for violence, and our collective failure to account for the consequences of our social and political action, or inaction. No crime is committed out of view for this novelist, and her raw, brutal power enlists us all as witnesses.
On Earth As It Is Beneath was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.
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Visit product page →Author Mia Couto, Language: Portuguese
Em 2008, quando Mia Couto participava da expedição de uma equipe de estudos ambientais ao norte de Moçambique, começaram a ocorrer na região ataques de leões a pessoas. Essa experiência inspirou o autor a escrever este romance singular.
Em A confissão da leoa, uma aldeia moçambicana é alvo de ataques mortais de leões provenientes da savana. O alarme chega à capital do país e um experimentado caçador, Arcanjo Baleiro, é enviado à região. Chegando lá, porém, ele se vê emaranhado numa teia de relações complexas e enigmáticas, em que os fatos, as lendas e os mitos se misturam.
Uma habitante da aldeia, Mariamar, em permanente desacordo com a família e os vizinhos, tem suas próprias teorias sobre a origem e a natureza dos ataques das feras. A irmã dela, Silência, foi a vítima mais recente.
O livro é narrado alternadamente pelos dois, Arcanjo e Mariamar, sempre em primeira pessoa. Ao longo das páginas, o leitor fica sabendo que eles já tiveram um primeiro encontro muitos anos atrás, quando Mariamar era adolescente e o caçador visitou a aldeia.
O confronto com as feras leva os personagens a um enfrentamento consigo mesmos, com seus fantasmas e culpas. A situação de crise põe a nu as contradições da comunidade, suas relações de poder, bem como a força, por vezes libertadora, por vezes opressiva, de suas tradições e mitos.Autor
Mia Couto, pseudónimo de António Emílio Leite Couto (Beira, 5 de Julho de 1955), é um biólogo e escritor moçambicano.
Mia nasceu e foi escolarizado na Beira. Adotou o nome porque tinha uma paixão por gatos e porque o seu irmão não sabia pronunciar o nome dele.
Com catorze anos de idade, teve alguns poemas publicados no jornal Notícias da Beira e três anos depois, em 1971, mudou-se para a cidade capital de Lourenço Marques (agora Maputo). Iniciou os estudos universitários em medicina, mas abandonou esta área no princípio do terceiro ano, passando a exercer a profissão de jornalista depois do 25 de Abril de 1974.
Foi nomeado diretor da Agência de Informação de Moçambique (AIM) e formou ligações de correspondentes entre as províncias moçambicanas durante o tempo da guerra de libertação. A seguir trabalhou como diretor da revista Tempo até 1981 e continuou a carreira no jornal Notícias até 1985. Em 1983, publicou o seu primeiro livro de poesia, Raiz de Orvalho, que inclui poemas contra a propaganda marxista militante. Dois anos depois, demitiu-se da posição de diretor para continuar os estudos universitários na área de biologia.
Além de considerado um dos escritores mais importantes de Moçambique, é o escritor moçambicano mais traduzido. Em muitas das suas obras, Mia Couto tenta recriar a língua portuguesa com uma influência moçambicana, utilizando o léxico de várias regiões do país e produzindo um novo modelo de narrativa africana. Terra Sonâmbula, o seu primeiro romance, publicado em 1992, ganhou o Prémio Nacional de Ficção da Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos em 1995 e foi considerado um dos dez melhores livros africanos do século XX por um júri criado pela Feira do Livro do Zimbabué.Language Portuguese Print length 272 pages ISBN-10 9722125672 ISBN-13 978-9722125673 -
Visit product page →Author: Mia Couto, Language: Portuguese,
O primeiro incidente militar numa aldeia do Norte de Moçambique marca, em agosto de 1914, o início da Primeira Guerra Mundial no continente africano.
Esse inesperado episódio despoleta, para além disso, uma série de misteriosos eventos que culminam com o desaparecimento da escrita no mundo. Livros, relatórios, documentos, fotografias, mapas surgem deslavados e ninguém mais parece ser capaz de dominar a arte da escrita. Os habitantes dessa aldeia são chamados a restabelecer a ordem no mundo, ensinando aos europeus o ofício da escrita e as artes da navegação.Autor
Mia Couto nasceu na Beira, Moçambique, em 1955. Foi jornalista e professor, e é, atualmente, biólogo e escritor. Está traduzido em diversas línguas.
Entre outros prémios e distinções (de que se destaca a nomeação, por um júri criado para o efeito pela Feira Internacional do Livro do Zimbabwe, de Terra Sonâmbula como um dos doze melhores livros africanos do século XX), foi galardoado, pelo conjunto da sua já vasta obra, com o Prémio Vergílio Ferreira 1999 e com o Prémio União Latina de Literaturas Românicas 2007. Ainda em 2007 Mia foi distinguido com o Prémio Passo Fundo Zaffari & Bourbon de Literatura pelo seu romance O Outro Pé da Sereia. Jesusalém foi considerado um dos 20 livros de ficção mais importantes da «rentrée» literária francesa por um júri da estação radiofónica France Culture e da revista Télérama. Em 2011 venceu o Prémio Eduardo Lourenço, que se destina a premiar o forte contributo de Mia Couto para o desenvolvimento da língua portuguesa. Em 2013 foi galardoado com o Prémio Camões e com o prémio norte-americano Neustadt. Em 2015 foi finalista do The Man Booker Prize.
O seu livro Compêndio para Desenterrar Nuvens ganhou o Grande Prémio do Conto Branquinho da Fonseca APE | Câmara Municipal de Cascais | Fundação D. Luís I, 2023.
Já em 2024 obteve o Prémio Feira Internacional do Livro de Guadalajara (México).Idioma: Português Dimensões: 137 x 213 x 21 mm Encadernação: Capa mole Páginas: 328 ISBN: 9789722133111 -
Visit product page →Author: Jay Shetty translated to Portuguese by Alexandra Guimarães
Inspirado na antiga sabedoria védica e em descobertas científicas atuais, Jay Shetty traz uma nova perspectiva sobre o amor e os relacionamentos
"O amor é um esforço diário. Neste livro, quero desenvolver com você o hábito do amor. Vou apresentar práticas, atitudes e ferramentas que vão ajudá-lo a amar de uma forma que traz recompensas diárias, estação após estação.” – Jay Shetty
Ninguém nos ensina a amar. Por isso, entramos nos relacionamentos sem modelos reais, acreditando nas histórias românticas de livros e filmes. Até agora.
Neste livro, Jay Shetty nos mostra com muita sabedoria e conselhos práticos como compreender o amor, cultivá-lo diariamente e vivê-lo em sua plenitude.
A partir de 8 regras fundamentais, que incluem aprender a ficar sozinho, a crescer ao lado do parceiro e a definir os limites do relacionamento, vamos descobrir como encontrar – em nós mesmos e nos outros – o amor que desejamos.
Fugindo de clichês batidos e ideias abstratas, Shetty aborda o ciclo completo dos relacionamentos: os primeiros encontros, a convivência e as crises – e, às vezes, o rompimento e a volta por cima.
Ele também ensina o que fazer para não cairmos em falsas promessas nem nos contentarmos com parceiros com quem não vivemos uma profunda conexão.
English summary
Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go by Jay Shetty, outlines a structured approach to romantic relationships, arguing that love is a skill developed through practice rather than just a fleeting emotion. The book provides a guide for building lasting love by preparing oneself through self-love, navigating conflict constructively, and aligning relationships with personal purpose and growth.
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Visit product page →Author: George Orwell translate to Portuguese.
O ano é o de 1984 e o mundo está irreconhecível. Encerrado nos confins do Departamento de Registos do Ministério da Verdade – «uma enorme estrutura piramidal de betão branco cintilante que se erguia a trezentos metros de altura» –, Winston Smith reescreve com mestria o passado, de forma que este se adapte às necessidades do Partido. No seu íntimo, contudo, Smith rebela-se contra a ordem totalitária que domina a sua vida, que exige obediência absoluta e que o controla através dos telecrãs – «enquanto permanecesse no campo de visão da placa metálica, poderia ser não só ouvido, como visto» –, o jugo do olho vigilante do Grande Irmão, personificação simbólica do líder do Partido. O diário que Smith está prestes a iniciar é decididamente contra as regras – a vigilância em massa é a única lei e a Polícia do Pensamento tem como função garantir que o pensamento individual é totalmente erradicado –, mas, assim que começa a escrever, a semente de revolta começa a brotar dentro de si. Na sua ânsia por verdade e por liberdade, Smith conhece Julia, e ambos se apaixonam. Dão início a um romance secreto, e proibido, mas já nada pode ser mantido em segredo e ambos serão forçados a enfrentar consequências mais aterradoras do que qualquer um deles poderia imaginar. «A distopia é o retrato do nosso futuro?», questiona Francisco Louçã no prefácio desta edição especial. Agora com o traço genial das ilustrações de André Carrilho, 1984, obra-prima de George Orwell, é talvez o mais imortal dos romances do século XX. A sua relevância faz prova da vitalidade da escrita de Orwell e a obra permanece como um alerta cujo ímpeto cabe a todos nós preservar.
ISBN : 9789722541121
IDIOMA : Português (PT)
ENCADERNAÇÃO : Brochura
PÁGINAS : 368
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