Books

Devin Meireles

a narrative photo expedition about finding kinship in a faraway land.

de Helena Ales Pereira; Fotografia: Inês Subtil 

Fotografias, entrevistas e os bastidores da série Portuguesa mais vista de sempre. 

No dia 26 de maio de 2023, estreava, na Netflix, Rabo de Peixe. Dois dias depois, a série portuguesa era número 1 no top nacional da Netflix, onde se manteve ao longo de mais de dois meses, tornando-se assim a série mais vista de sempre em Portugal.

Além-fronteiras, chegou a mais de 190 países e, em mais 38, a história de quatro amigos que tentam escapar ao seu destino alcançou o top das séries mais vistas, acumulando mais de 45 milhões de horas de visualizações, segundo dados divulgados pela empresa em junho deste ano.

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Lawton brings interested home cooks along on a journey through the landscape of Azorean cooking with dozens of home-cooked recipes.

Whether you're looking to explore new dishes or reconnect with your roots, this cookbook offers a delightful blend of authentic recipes and heartwarming stories that will make your kitchen the heart of your home. Join Maria in celebrating the beauty of Portuguese cuisine and create lasting memories with every meal.

Portugal boasts one of the best cuisines in the world. But Portuguese food can also be intimidating. The days of being afraid to cook your VoVó’s favorite recipes are over, because I’m  here to measure everything out, map it out patiently, and put everything into easy to understand English! From Seafood to Meats, from Gameday foods to Desserts, I’m covering all of your favorite Portuguese recipes. Impress your friends and family alike, because I can assure you, everyone will be going back for seconds!

Portuguese cookbook with 46 delicious easy to make recipes!

Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius.

Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal.

Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet.

A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.

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A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.

Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder to handle. It is in Paulo Honório’s own rough-hewn voice that the great Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, often compared to William Faulkner, tells this gritty and dryly funny story of triumph and comeuppance, a tour de force of the writer’s art that is beautifully captured in Padma Viswanathan’s new translation.

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A nova aventura da menina Néveda apresenta-nos a um novo meio de transporte e uma viajem pelas Américas. Do Canadá, passando por alguns lugares nos Estados Unidos, México, Brasil e terminando no Uruguai, a Néveda aprende sobre lugares, arte e muita cultura em geral.

conto/story: Terry Costa
ilustração/illustration: Vera Bettencourt

Part of a new travel series, Portugal: The Monocle Handbook is a practical guide that will introduce you to the best the country has to offer as we present our favourite spots across the country. We’ve travelled from north to south (via the islands) to find innovative retailers and traditional ateliers, the chefs turning out the tastiest dishes and the sleekest hotels – not to mention undiscovered beaches and world-leading cultural venues. We even reveal the best neighbourhoods to invest in should you wish to put down roots in this sunny nation, plus the plucky entrepreneurs who’ve already made the move. It’s time to pack your bags for Portugal.

Features: 208 pages, hardcover

Published by: Monocle

Printed in: Italy

Dimensions: 24.1cm x 18.6cm x 2.2cm

A conceituada «História de Portugal» de A.H. de Oliveira Marques, numa versão abreviada, há décadas ausente das livrarias.
Edição simultânea em português, inglês e francês.

A história de Portugal é longa e complexa, e por isso o próprio de Oliveira Marques começou por fixá-la em três volumes que se tornaram um clássico da historiografia nacional. Mas foi também ele, um dos mais eminentes historiadores portugueses, a preparar a partir daí esta versão brevíssima, com todas as linhas essenciais concentradas em apenas 250 páginas, num pequeno formato raro, há muito esgotado. Uma versão que conserva todo o rigor e alcance histórico das edições mais alargadas, privilegiando uma relação mais directa, clara e certeira com o leitor, útil tanto para estudiosos como para curiosos.

Carol Robertson shares her fascination with the country and its cuisine in lively journal entries and delightful drawings, while David Robertson's evocative photographs provide a look at the wonders of the Portuguese landscape and culture. The result is a personal travel book for lovers of good food. Portugal is blessed with a flavorful and complex cuisine that brings together influences from Europe, Africa, and the Muslim world. The simple-to-prepare dishes rely on pork and seafood of all kinds, as well as tomatoes, olives, kale, hot and sweet peppers, garlic, mint, and the silken magic of virgin olive oil. Treat yourself to a true taste of Portugal.

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