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Written by Cristina Mesquita De Oliveira, Language Portuguese,

Menopausa não é doença. É, somente, uma etapa na vida da mulher, tal como a puberdade. No entanto, continua a ser alvo de preconceitos e de muita informação contraditória.

Stress e exaustão, mudanças de humor, alterações no padrão de sono, confusão mental, baixa líbido, ondas de calor, suores noturnos e aumento de peso são alguns dos efeitos do processo de menopausa.

Uma etapa de vida desafiante, que pode parecer solitária, mas não tem de ser assim!

Com este livro, Cristina Mesquita De Oliveira, presidente da Associação Portuguesa de Menopausa, oferece conhecimento, combatendo mitos e mal-entendidos, para ajudar todas as mulheres a transformarem esse momento desafiante num processo emocionante e positivo.

Descubra o que acontece ao seu corpo durante as três fases do processo de menopausa;
Saiba o que esperar, os efeitos mais comuns, porque se manifestam e como lidar com eles;
Obtenha orientação abrangente sobre a variedade de tratamentos disponíveis, incluindo medicina tradicional e complementar.

Deixe a menopausa das suas mãe e avós para trás e viva sem medos a menopausa do século XXI!

Author Giovanna Madalosso translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato

 NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025
NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025

Nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award

The English-language debut of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, The Tokyo Suite is a gripping exploration of the complexities of modern family dynamics and the tensions hiding just under the surface of ordinary lives. 

It’s a seemingly ordinary morning when Maju, a nanny, boards a bus with Cora, the young girl she’s been caring for, and disappears. The abduction, an act as impulsive as it is extreme, sets off a series of events that will force each character to confront their deepest fears and desires.

Fernanda, Cora's mother, is a successful executive who is so engulfed in her own personal crisis that she initially fails to notice her daughter's disappearance. Her marriage is strained, and she finds solace in an affair, distancing herself further from her family. Meanwhile, her husband, overwhelmed by the complexities of their domestic life, remains emotionally detached. As Maju navigates the streets of São Paulo with Cora, the “white army” of nannies, a term coined by Fernanda, seems to watch her every move, heightening her sense of paranoia and urgency. 

Madalosso’s narrative delves deep into the human psyche, examining themes of maternal guilt, societal expectations, and the search for personal identity. Rich and multi-layered, The Tokyo Suite is a poignant and gripping tale that captures the essence of modern urban life and the lengths to which people will go to reclaim a sense of control and meaning in their lives. 

Written by Maria Isaac, Language Portuguese,

«São as histórias que nos matam, quando não conseguimos abandoná-las, nem mudar quem somos nelas.

» Miguel Godói viveu um casamento feliz, que deveria ter durado para sempre.

Mas acidentes acontecem, as histórias mudam, os heróis também morrem, e até os casamentos felizes chegam ao fim.

Agora sozinho numa vida que não escolheu para si, aprende a conviver com as limitações de um corpo partido e mal emendado, com uma epilepsia peculiar que o tornou num doente crónico, e a fazer sentido do mundo entre as suas memórias imperfeitas.

Numa manhã de inverno, Miguel conhece uma misteriosa criança que o leva até a uma casa desconhecida na Madragoa à procura de respostas sobre o livro enigmático que chegou às suas mãos.

O que lá encontra, porém, são ainda mais perguntas e uma possibilidade inesperada: um novo amor por uma mulher.

Perdido há demasiado tempo no lugar-comum do sofrimento, onde as dores familiares transformam a nostalgia na escolha preferencial, Miguel Godói enfrentará agora a vertigem de alcançar uma esperança até aqui desconhecida.

Autor

Maria Isaac nasceu no Norte de Portugal, numa pequena vila cheia de espaço e onde as pessoas sorriem e falam alto. É autora do livro Onde Cantam os Grilos, finalista do Prémio Fundação Eça de Queiroz 2019, e a voz do podcast literário Palavra. Atualmente, vive em Lisboa, rodeada de livros.

Author: Frederico Lourenço, Language: Portuguese, 2nd edition 

Luís de Camões (1524?-1580) é um dos maiores nomes da literatura mundial e a sua obra ocupa, ainda hoje, o lugar cimeiro na história da cultura portuguesa.

Na sua produção épica e lírica criou um universo único, cujos encantos e mistérios despertam há séculos a paixão de leitores e estudiosos.

A presente antologia, pensada como homenagem ao poeta no seu quinto centenário, dá a ler as passagens mais brilhantes de Os Lusíadas e das Rimas, com um comentário ao mesmo tempo acessível, erudito e ousado.

Conhecido pelo seu romance camoniano Pode Um Desejo Imenso e por estudos académicos sobre Camões, Frederico Lourenço dedica-se aqui a explorar, com elementos novos, a velha questão da presença clássica na obra camoniana, não deixando de enfrentar o problema de como lê-la à luz das mentalidades contemporâneas.

Autor

Frederico Lourenço (Lisboa, 1963) é professor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra e investigador no Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da mesma instituição. Tem-se dedicado à tradução e ao comentário de clássicos da literatura grega e latina (com destaque para Homero e Vergílio), assim como ao estudo do Novo Testamento e da versão grega do Antigo Testamento (Septuaginta). Em paralelo com a tradução da Bíblia (de que o presente volume é o quinto), publicou na Quetzal uma edição bilingue dos Evangelhos Apócrifos Gregos e Latinos.

IDIOMA : Português (PT)
FORMATO : 14 x 21
PÁGINAS : 632

Author: Luciany Aparecida, Language: Portuguese,

No primeiro romance que assina com o próprio nome, Luciany Aparecida narra, com uma prosa lírica e de força singular, os trágicos acontecimentos que cercam um pequeno vilarejo rural no interior da Bahia.

Maria Teresa vive com as suas mães num casarão antigo, cheio de histórias dos seus antepassados, de frente para um lajedo de pedra. Pelo peitoril, corre um roseiral, apenas com rosas brancas, e, no caminho diante da casa, passam personagens memoráveis: Mané da Gaita, músico e vendedor de doce, e a sua cadela Chula; Lai, ex-prostituta e a sua madrinha; os gémeos Cícero e António, filhos do dono da venda; Toni de Maximiliana, vaqueiro matador de gado, filho da sacerdotisa Mãe Maximiliana dos Santos; e Zezito, único filho homem de Luzia, e por quem Maria Teresa se apaixona e com quem planeia casar.

Ao experimentar o vestido de noiva num sábado de festa, um dia antes do casamento, uma tragédia envolvendo um fazendeiro violento e arbitrário atinge Maria Teresa e muda a sua vida para sempre.

Narrando o drama que se torna central, ela vai pouco a pouco revelando ao leitor os sentimentos mais profundos dos que habitam Mata Doce. Surgem então, numa delicada costura narrativa, antigas brigas familiares, segredos do passado, sentimentos clandestinos e muitos mistérios.

Mata Doce é um romance épico, delicado e poderoso, que entrelaça passado e presente numa obra majestosa, e desde já um marco da literatura brasileira contemporânea.

written by Clarice Lispector. Language in Portuguese.

Há livros que desviam para sempre o curso de uma literatura inteira. Não o fazem sozinhos - ora ecoam as vanguardas da sua época, ora rasgam preceitos vigentes; em casos mais raros, antecipam um certo futuro.

É assim com Perto do coração selvagem, romance de estreia de Clarice Lispector. Publicado no ano em que a escritora completou 23 anos, conta a história de Joana: desde a infância marcada pela morte do pai e pela solidão do colégio interno, até à idade adulta, com um casamento longe do sonhado, a maternidade, a paixão por um homem enigmático e, por fim, uma inevitável dispersão do eu, da identidade, do rumo da vida.

Joana é uma mulher supremamente livre, não confinável aos limites do seu tempo, indisponível para conter a sua voz, o seu pensamento ou o seu desejo vital, determinada a não dar passos que não sejam os seus rumo ao coração da existência. Enquanto acedemos à intimidade desta criação de Clarice - por entre admiráveis epifanias e monólogos interiores - chegamos mais perto da genialidade da sua criadora.

Dialogando, mesmo se inadvertidamente, com Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse ou James Joyce, na reflexão sobre as inquietações da modernidade, este romance subsiste como um clarão na literatura em lingua portuguesa, valendo a Clarice Lispector toda a admiração dos leitores, da crítica e dos pares.

Foste a maneira mais bonita de errar written by Pedro Chagas Freitas.

 Foste a maneira mais bonita de errar, o livro em que Pedro Chagas Freitas volta aos grandes romances, com uma história de força e superação. Um livro de amores possíveis e impossíveis carregados de determinação e força de viver. 

Uma história de uma mulher corajosa que, mesmo depois de a vida a levar a enfrentar vários desafios, nunca desiste de ser quem é e aprende a reinventar-se num mundo que insiste em não deixá-la ser forte. 

Mais do que um romance, este livro é uma lição de vida, contada no estilo único de Pedro Chagas Freitas, que parece sussurrar-nos ao ouvido.

Uma história incrível, viciante e comovente, que nos mostra a importância do amor e de nunca deixarmos de ser quem somos.

Autor

Pedro Chagas Freitas escreve. Publicou 22 das mais de 150 obras que já criou. Foi, ou ainda é, jornalista, redactor publicitário, guionista, operário fabril, barman, nadador salvador, jogador de futebol, e muitas outras coisas igualmente desinteressantes. Orienta desorientadas sessões de escrita criativa por todo o país e arredores. Gosta de gatos, de cães e de pessoas. Não gosta de eufemismos e de bacalhau assado.
Tem mais de 100.000 fãs na sua página de Facebook. 

O Retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso 

 1975, Luanda. A descolonização instiga ódios e guerras. Os brancos debandam e em poucos meses chegam a Portugal mais de meio milhão de pessoas. O processo revolucionário está no seu auge e os retornados são recebidos com desconfiança e hostilidade. Muitos nao têm para onde ir nem do que viver. Rui tem quinze anos e é um deles. 1975. Lisboa. Durante mais de um ano, Rui e a família vivem num quarto de um hotel de 5 estrelas a abarrotar de retornados — um improvável purgatório sem salvação garantida que se degrada de dia para dia. A adolescência torna-se uma espera assustada pela idade adulta: aprender o desespero e a raiva, reaprender o amor, inventar a esperança. África sempre presente mas cada vez mais longe.

English overview

A Very Short History of Portugal is written by A.H. De Oliveira Marques. 

From the moment the first men set foot in the Iberian Peninsula, around 2000 b.C., until the end of the «New State» and the independence of the ex‑colonies, through various kings, sea voyages to India and other destinations, these pages have a lot to tell.

The history of Portugal is long and complex, and so Oliveira Marques, one of the most renowned Portuguese historians, began by writing it down in three volumes which became a classic of Portuguese historiography. Based on them, he also prepared this very short version, which summarises all crucial events. This rare, small‑format book retains all the rigour and historical breadth of longer editions, and is as useful for scholars as it is for inquisitive people.

The Land At The End Of The World written by Antonio Lobo Antunes and translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

"Brilliant…harrowing…Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell." —Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, one of the twentieth century’s most original literary voices offers "kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa" (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world literature, The Land at the End of the World—in an acclaimed translation by Margaret Jull Costa—recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war. Like the Ancient Mariner who will tell his tale to anyone who listens, the narrator’s evening unfolds like a fever dream that is both tragic and haunting. The result is one of the great war novels of the modern age.

Author

António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.

Translator

Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.

Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret written by Ondjaki translated by Stephen Henighan. 

THE WINNER OF THE 2013 JOSE Saramago, Prize  AFRICA39/UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE 

By the beaches of Luanda, the Soviets are building a grand mausoleum in honour of the Comrade President. Granmas are houses, they say, will be "dexploded," and everyone will have to leave. With the help of his friends Charlita and Pi (whom everyone calls 3.14), and with assistance from Dr. Rafael Knockknock, the Comrade Gas Jockey, the amorous Gudafterov, crazy Sea Foam, and a ghost, our young hero must decide exactly how much trouble he s willing to face to keep his Granma safe in Bishop s Beach. Energetic and colourful, impish and playful, "Granma Nineteen and the Soviet s Secret" is a charming coming-of-age story from the next rising star in African literature."

Author

Naalu de Almeida (born 1977) is a writer from Angola, writing under the pen name Ondjaki. He lives in Luanda. He completed his degree in Sociology in Lisbon in 2002 with a study on the great Angolan writer Luandino Vieira. A versatile young talent and a most promising writer of the Portuguese language in Africa, he has already had paintings exhibited, given public performances as an actor, as well as published his own poems and novels. Ondjaki has been awarded the Grande Prémio de

Conto Camilo Castelo Branco 2008 by the Portuguese Writers' Association for his novel Os da Minha Rua. In 2008 he was distinguished with the Grinzane for Africa award, in the category of young writer, and recently, Ondjaki has won the prestigious Jabuti Prize 2010 with his juvenile book AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Sovietico.

Translator

Stephen Patrick Glanvill Henighan was born in Hamburg, and The remainder of his upbringing took place on a farm in Eastern Ontario. Stephen teaches Spanish American literature at the University of Guelph, Ontario.  Henighan has written short stories and novels about immigrants and travellers. For his fiction Stephen has won the Potter Short Story Prize and a McNally-Robinson Fiction Prize.  For his non-fiction he has been a finalist  for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Canada Prize in the Humanities, a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award.

The Turner of Silences written by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw. 

Mwanito Vitalcio was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito's been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.

The 8th novel by NY Times-acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more. The Tuner of Silences was heralded as one of the most important books to be published in France in 2011, and remains a shocking portrait of the intergenerational legacies of war. Available for the first time in English.

Author

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.

Translator

David Brookshaw is a professor of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol (London), and the General Editor of the HiPLA Monograph Series. He is the translator of six books by Couto, including Sleepwalking Land and The Last Flight of the Flamingo.

Language English 

length 224 pages

ISBN: 9781926845951

The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule.e€" Ndani leaves her village to seek a better life in the capital, finding work as a maid for a Portuguese family. The mistress of the house, Dona Deolinda, embarks on a mission to save Ndani's soul through religious teaching, but the master of the house has less righteous intentions. Ndani is expelled from the house and drifts towards home, where she becomes the wife of a village chief. He has built a mansion and a school to flaunt his power to the local Portuguese administrator, but he abandons Ndani when he finds she's not a virgin. She eventually finds love with the school's teacher, but in tumultuous times, making a future with an educated black man involves a series of hurdles.e€" By turns humorous, heartrending and wise. 

Author

Abdulai Silá was born in 1958 in Catió, Guinea Bissau. He moved to the capital, Bissau, to complete his school studies and then to Dresden, Germany, to complete a degree in Power Engineering.

He currently lives in Bissau and combines telecommunications work with writing.

He is the author of four novels, A Última Tragédia, Eterna Paixão [Eternal Passion], Mistida [Mixed] and Memórias (Mantic Memories], all of which deal with Bissau-Guinean culture and history. He is the co-founder of the publisher Ku Si Mon Editora and he has also written a play, As Orações de Mansat [Mansat's Prayers], a Bissau-Guinean Macbeth.

Translator

Jethro Soutar is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He has translated crime fiction from Argentina (Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, nominated for an International Dagger) and Brazil (Hotel Brasilby Frei Betto, winner of a PEN award) for Bitter Lemon Press. His translation of By Night The Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was published by And Other Stories in November 2014. He also co-edited and co-translated The Football Crónicas for Ragpicker Press.

From the award-winning writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, a haunting exploration of the memories of three men and the reverberations of slavery, colonialism, and empire.

Three men haunt these pages. Perhaps they are tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. All three have been expelled in some way, sent on solitary journeys into the night. Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who served on the Portuguese side in the Colonial War and has become a valet in Lisbon, writes endlessly to his daughter, asking for her forgiveness. And Bruma, an enslaved man, initiates a young writer, Eça de Queirós, into the world of literature.

In discrete yet overlapping tales, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Three Stories of Forgetting explores the experiences of those who live within the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and the Portuguese Empire. In these unstable chapters, we find incarnations of our despair at the questions that history does not answer, and allegories that may yet reveal new ways of seeing through the dark.

Language English

Print length 304 pages

ISBN-10 0374612099

ISBN-13 978-0374612092

On EarthAs It is Beneath written by Ana Paula Maia and Translated by Padma Viswanathan.

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED 2026

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 has once again delivered 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 witness.

Author

Our Musseque written by José Luandino Vieira and translated by Robin Patterson.

Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes and determined women battling to bring up their families, as Angola hurtles towards the beginning of its armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Meanwhile the children laugh, play, squabble and fight, puzzle at racial taunts and move rapidly through adolescence towards sexual awakening and a greater awareness of political realities around them. Written in prison in 1961-62 but not published until over 40 years later, the novel is shot through with a sense of nostalgia for the lost innocence of childhood and a community swept away by the encroaching city, together with the exhilaration, hopes and fears for what is about to Come.

Author 

José Luandino Vieira was born in Portugal in 1935 and grew up in Luanda. He was one of a group of political activists whose trial in 1959 helped spark the Angolan uprising against colonial rule. He spent most of the following fifteen years in prison or under house arrest, until the collapse of the Portuguese dictatorship in

1974. His first collection of short stories, Luuanda, written in prison, was awarded the Fiction Prize by the Portuguese Writers' Society in 1965, resulting in the society's closure by the Salazar regime. Following Angolan independence, he held a number of important literary and cultural roles under the new Angolan government, including secretary-general of the Angolan Writers' Union. He has published two novels (Nós, os do Makulusu (1974) and Nosso Musseque (2003)), two novellas and seven collections of short stories, along with two parts of his De Rios Velhos e Guerrilheiros trilogy. In 2006 he was awarded, but declined for personal reasons, the Camões Prize, the most prestigious international award for literature in the Portuguese language. He now lives in Portugal.

Translator 

Robin Patterson came late to literary translating, having previously pursued a legal career in various parts of the world.

He has participated in both the Birkbeck and the BCLT literary translation summer schools and, in 2013, was mentored by Margaret Jull Costa as part of the BCLT mentorship programme. In 2014, his translated extracts from José Luis Peixoto's Inside the Secretwere serialised by Ninth Letter, and his translation of Eve's Mango, an extract from Vanessa da Mata's debut novel, was featured on the Bookanista website. He also contributed a translation of Congressman Romário: Big Fish in the Aquariumby Clara Becker to The Football Crónicas, a collection of football-related Latin American literature published by Ragpicker Press in June 2014.

That Hair written by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and translated by Eric M. B. Becker. 

A Best Translation of the Year at World Literature Today

Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize

That Hair consists of universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory.

"The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father.

She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity.

In layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of"returning" to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.

Author

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida was born in Luanda, Angola, and grew up in Lisbon. She has a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta.com, Words Without Borders, Granta Portugal, Observador, Somos Libros, Ler, serrote, and 451.

Translator

Eric M. B. Becker is a literary translator, critic, writer, and editor of Words without Borders. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, PEN America, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

Becker has translated work by Mia Couto, Paulo Coelho, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, and Daniel Galera, among others. His work has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Freeman's, Electric Literature, and many other publications. He is editor of several anthologies and magazine features devoted to the literature of Brazil.

Language English

Print length 200 pages

Item weight 159g

Dimensions 12.85 × 1.07 × 19.84 cm