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Visit product page →Pessoa’s best known works and poems.
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Visit product page →SINOPSEAlegria! é um guia prático e ilustrado dos princípios do método KonMari, que ajudou já dezenas de milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo a organizar o espaço em que vivem — e a transformar as suas vidas! Com dicas práticas para arrumar tudo — de roupas a CD, de materiais de limpeza a brinquedos e objetos de coleção —, bem como indicações sobre os princípios básicos da arrumação e da organização («Uma casa com alegria é como o seu museu pessoal» ou «"Pode dar jeito" é um tabu»), este livro vai ajudá-lo a viver rodeado apenas daquilo que lhe traz realmente… alegria!
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Visit product page →A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues that define Portugal’s countryside, coast, small towns, and cosmopolitan cities.
This collection features over 200 stunning photographs that illustrate the ways that color and pattern are woven into the very fabric of the country’s culture, history, architecture, and traditions. Each section features insightful essays that explore the artistry of azulejos, the colorful ceramic tiles covering much of Portugal’s architecture; the intricately embroidered details of traditional lavradeira costumes; the rich flavors of Portuguese cuisine, and so much more.
Throughout these vibrant pages, you’ll discover the vivid stories behind each color and pattern, transporting you to the gorgeous fields of Alentejo, the sparkling waters of the Algarve, the busy streets of Lisbon, the lush valleys of the Douro, and beyond. -
Visit product page →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.Paperback
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Sold outVisit product page →Brush up on your Portuguese language skills in 3 months!
Whether you’re visiting Portugal or simply want to improve your Portuguese vocabulary and grammar, this practical language learning course is packed with learning tips and an audio app that makes learning fun!
Inside this Portuguese language book, you’ll find:
• “Imitated pronunciation” sections that make unfamiliar Portuguese sounds less daunting to English learners
• Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary
• Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
• Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and PortuguesePaperback
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Visit product page →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
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Visit product page →More delicious, easy to follow recipes from the streets of Lisbon to the rustic countryside.
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Visit product page →Devin Meireles
a narrative photo expedition about finding kinship in a faraway land.
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Sold outVisit product page →From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the teachings imparted along the way.In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, the challenger who comes searching for him, and the boy who observes their competition. Afterwards, the boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life.
Paulo Coelho's story is a powerful reminder that action and the soul are inextricably connected, and that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build up patience and courage, and embrace the many unexpected turns fate has to offer.
With the wisdom, generosity, and grace that have made him an internationally best-selling writer, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference. -
Visit product page →From José Saramago, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baltasar and Blimunda is a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (The New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. Portugal, 1711: an amorous friar is pursued naked through the rubble-strewn streets of Lisbon; an enthusiastic procession of flagellants roars with pleasure over the damnation of adultery; a royal prince uses hapless sailors for target practice; and women dressed in colorful finery watch as lapsed converts and sorcerers are put to death by flames. In the midst of the terrors of the Inquisition and the plague, a seemingly mismatched couple discover the wonders of love. This poetic tale, graced with exquisite historical details and full of magic and adventure, is a tapestry of human folly and human will.
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Visit product page →E se a verdadeira história de Rabo de Peixe for ainda mais rocambolesca do que aquela que é contada na série da Netflix?
No dia 6 de junho de 2001, Antonino Giuseppe Quinci, o protagonista da história que mudou o destino de várias gerações de rabopeixenses, aportou na vila, depois de ter escondido, pela costa de São Miguel, mais de 700 quilos de cocaína.
O açoriano Rúben Pacheco Correia empreendeu uma longa viagem à procura da verdade dos factos, assim como dos protagonistas de carne e osso, da história que inspirou a série. Sem saber até onde o iria levar a investigação a que se dedicou durante quase dois anos e que o fez viajar até à Itália e ao Brasil, o autor, conhecido gastrónomo e comentador televisivo, partiu com o desígnio de fazer justiça à verdade e também à vila onde nasceu em 1997.
Passados mais de vinte anos, o país e o mundo podem, finalmente, conhecer o rosto dos protagonistas reais e as suas histórias, inéditas e peculiares, que se desenrolaram naquele trágico ano e que mudaram, para sempre, o destino de Rabo de Peixe.
Será que, realmente, as pessoas panaram peixe com a cocaína do traficante italiano? Fizeram linhas de campo de futebol com a droga? Houve, de facto, algum padre que sofreu uma overdose? E, afinal, quem era e onde está o protagonista de todo este desastre? Como fugiu da prisão? E quem são os demais envolvidos nesta história?
Neste livro, Rúben Pacheco Correia leva o leitor a sentir-se parte da investigação, fá-lo vibrar a cada pista conseguida, levantar voo a cada viagem, e concluir que, nesta história, a realidade supera mesmo a ficção. -
Visit product page →A lyrical journey through the landscapes of love, exile, and justice
Bridges Beyond Silence is a poetic trilogy that unfolds in three arcs — From Indifference to Love, Release into Grace, and Justice Transfigured — traversing the intimate and the universal as it traces a path from the quiet ache of belonging to the luminous possibility of compassion.
Drawing on his life between the Azores and Canada, between public service and inner reflection, Dr. Mario Silva writes with the clarity of one who has witnessed both the fractures and the resilience of the human spirit. His verses explore how love survives migration, how memory shapes identity, and how justice transforms when grounded in empathy.
At once personal and political, Bridges Beyond Silence invites readers to listen — to the silences between words, to the echoes of history, and to the enduring call of hope that unites us across time and place.
Dr. Mario Silva, PhD (Law), is an international legal scholar, author, and former Canadian MP. Decorated by France, Portugal, and Brazil for his human rights work, he has served in senior diplomatic and tribunal roles. Bridges Beyond Silence is his poetic debut, reflecting a life devoted to justice and human connection.
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Sold outVisit product page →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.
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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.
Language English Print length 188 pages ISBN-10 9781910213544 ISBN-13 978-1910213544 -
Visit product page →Sleepwalking Land written by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw.
On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp." The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo
The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique." Guardian (London)
Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."
Doris Lessing
As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. Written in 1992, Mia Couto's first novel is a powerful indictment of the suffering war brings.
Born in 1955 in Mozambique, Mia Couto ran the AIM news agency during the revolutionary struggle. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and heads the Mozambique side of the Limpopo Transnational Park. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life's work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
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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.
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David Brookshaw is a London-born professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol specializing in comparative literature, translation, and postcolonial Portuguese literature. He has translated works by Mia Cuoto and Onésimo Almeida and compiled an anthology of stories by the Portuguese author José Rodrigues Miguéis.
Language English Print length 256 pages ISBN-10 185242897X ISBN-13 978-1852428976 -
Visit product page →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
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Visit product page →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.
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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.
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Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.
English224 pagesShipping dimensions: 8" H x 6" W x 1" LISBN: 9780393342338 -
Visit product page →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.
MARÇO DE 2018 | 258 PP | 18.5x13 CMISBN: 978-989-671-420-8AuthorA.H. de Oliveira Marques (1933-2007) was born in São Pedro do Estoril. He graduated in Historical-Philosophical Sciences from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. After an internship at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he began his teaching career in 1957 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), where he obtained his PhD in History in 1960.In 1997, he received a PhD Honoris Causa from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and in 1988 was decorated by the President of the Republic with the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty. He is the author of a historiographical work with more than 60 volumes, and is considered one of the leading experts in Portuguese Medieval History. -
Visit product page →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
1975, Luanda. Decolonization fuels hatred and wars. White people flee, and within a few months, over half a million people arrive in Portugal. The revolutionary process is at its peak, and the retornados (returnees) are received with suspicion and hostility. Many have nowhere to go and no means to live. Fifteen-year-old Rui is one of them.1975, Lisbon. For over a year, Rui and his family live in a 5-star hotel room packed with retornados—an unlikely purgatory with no guaranteed salvation that degrades day by day. Adolescence becomes a frightened wait for adulthood: learning despair and rage, relearning love, inventing hope. Africa is always present, yet increasingly distant.Language Portuguese Print length 272 pages ISBN-10 989671116X ISBN-13 978-9896711160
AuthorDulce Maria Cardoso is a celebrated Portuguese author known for exploring themes of memory, identity, and the lingering effects of Portugal's colonial past. Her major works include award-winning novels O Retorno (The Return) Eliete:A Normal Life, and her debut, Campo de Sangue. Her writing often focuses on personal crises amidst significant political or social shifts. -
Sold outVisit product page →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.Idioma Português ISBN-10 9896609985 ISBN-13 978-9896609986 -
Visit product page →Cicatrizes written by Dino D’Santiago (language Portuguese) autorretrato/ autobiography
Metade de um século passou sobre a independência da sua terra ancestral, altura em que o seu pai já emigrara da ilha cabo-verdiana de Santiago para Portugal. Meia centena é também o número de textos que compõem a estreia literária de Dino D’Santiago.
Esta estreia não resulta de uma produção linear, nem nasceu da intenção de se tornar livro, mas germinou de forma orgânica, num processo de escrita e de autoconhecimento que se foi alimentando mutuamente. Escrever foi pedir licença à ancestralidade, voltar às memórias do passado, olhar para o presente e esperançar o futuro.
Ao ser desafiado a publicar o que escreveu, o autor acreditou que a partilha da sua experiência, das suas reflexões sobre o quotidiano, do seu sentir, e também dos seus conflitos e vulnerabilidades, revela aquilo que ele em nenhum momento deixa de ser: o homem comum que, apesar da carreira artística, não abre mão dos papéis de pai, filho, irmão e marido.
Se a pena é a língua da alma, Cicatrizes exprime sem precedentes a natureza íntima do seu criador.
Autor
Dino D’Santiago nasceu Claudino de Jesus Borges Pereira em 1982, em Faro. Filho de pais cabo-verdianos, cedo se envolveu nos movimentos de música urbana globalizada, fundindo os universos do soul e do hip-hop com o batuku e o funaná.
Em nome próprio lançou os álbuns Eu e os Meus (2008), Eva (2013), Mundu Nôbu(2018), Kriola (2020) e BADIU (2021), além de ter colaborado em trabalhos com diversos artistas.
Entre os muitos prémios e distinções que recebeu, destacam-se diversos Play – Prémios da Música Portuguesa, um Globo de Ouro e a nomeação para os Grammy Latinos com a canção «Esperança» (conjuntamente com Criolo e Amaro Freitas).
Fundou os projetos Lisboa Criola e Sou Quarteira, foi considerado uma das cem pessoas afrodescendentes mais influentes do mundo pela MIPAD (Most Influential People of African Descent), é embaixador do Projeto VOAR da UNICEF e presidente da ONGD Mundu NôbuLanguage Portuguese
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Visit product page →Água viva by Clarice Lispector (Language Portuguese)
Revisitação de pontos centrais no universo literário de Clarice Lispector, Água viva é pura incandescência da inventividade e da linguagem. Uma enigmática voz feminina – toda audácia, delírio e sedução – conduz a narrativa. Esta mulher, cujo nome não sabemos, deseja mudar de ofício e tornar-se escritora. Ela é um eu que reivindica a ocupação de um espaço e de um tempo, que se dirige a um tu misterioso e que propõe o ousado alinhamento de humanos e bichos, natureza e linguagem, rumo ao centro da vida, que Clarice perseguiu em todas as suas obras.
Contestando limites e sem cedências à convenção, este livro inaugura um espaço partilhado entre quem escreve e quem lê: nesta mulher, na sua inquietação ou na sua letargia, nas suas fraturas ou nas suas pulsões, reconhecemos uma humanidade em estado bruto. O tom fragmentário é contrariado por uma cadência de demandas e reflexões tão profundamente individuais como peremptoriamente universais. Um livro desconcertante, que oferece uma hipótese de fusão entre escrita e leitura, forma e tema, corpo e pensamento: radicalmente inovador, ao suspender as fórmulas de representação romanesca, e irresistivelmente transgressor, na exposição das costuras da ficção e da voz lírica.
Água viva é um triunfo de Clarice Lispector, que aqui ensaia uma nova escrita de si e do mundo.English overview
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.
Author
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.
She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.
She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977.
She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.Language Portuguese ISBN-10 6555320214 ISBN-13 978-6555320213 -
Visit product page →Author: Isabel Figueiredo, Language: Portuguese,
Este novo romance de Isabela Figueiredo, a que ela deu o sugestivo e justificado título de Um Cão no Meio do Caminho, conta-nos as histórias de um homem e de uma mulher que sofrem, cada um à sua maneira, um dos grandes males da vida moderna – a solidão. Neles a solidão é a resposta aos violentos acidentes com que a vida os agrediu.
As sociedades modernas vivem sobre a violência. Mas há quem a recuse, como é aqui o caso de José Viriato e da sua misteriosa vizinha, Beatriz, que todos conhecem como a Matadora. O acaso junta-os, como o leitor verificará com a leitura deste livro. Que resultado obtemos quando se juntam duas solidões? É esta a questão que este novo romance da autora do aclamado A Gorda vem equacionar, deixando a resposta ao critério de cada leitor. Eventualmente um cão pode ajudar.Autor
Isabela Figueiredo Nasceu em Lourenço Marques, Moçambique, hoje Maputo, em 1963, filha de portugueses oriundos da zona Centro-Oeste de Portugal. Após a independência de Moçambique, em 1975, rumou a Portugal. Licenciou-se em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas, variante de Estudos Portugueses, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Especializou-se em Estudos sobre as Mulheres na Universidade Aberta. Trabalhou como jornalista no Diário de Notícias entre 1988 e 1994, onde foi também coordenadora do suplemento DN Jovem. Foi professora de português no ensino secundário. Escreveu Conto É Como Quem Diz, novela que recebeu o primeiro prémio da Mostra Portuguesa de Artes e Ideias, Caderno de Memórias Coloniais, cuja edição francesa foi finalista do Prémio Femina Estrangeiro, e A Gorda, obra que recebeu o Prémio Literário Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. Estas duas obras alcançaram grande êxito junto do público e da crítica, especialmente em Portugal e no Brasil, sendo constantemente reimpressas. Escreve regularmente para o seu blogue Novo Mundo
Idioma Português Número de páginas 240 páginas ISBN-10 655692508X ISBN-13 978 -
Visit product page →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.
ISBN:978-972-0-03947-7Ano de edição:03-2025Editor:Porto EditoraIdioma:PortuguêsDimensões:152 x 235 x 20 mmEncadernação:Capa molePáginas:248 -
Visit product page →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!
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9789895890521
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16,5 x 23,5 cm
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256