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Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta
and her husband Marcal in a small village on the outskirts of The
Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices to
which Cipriano delivers his pots and jugs every month. On one such
trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. Unwilling to give
up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls.
Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and
Cipriano and Marta set to work-until the order is cancelled and the
three have to move from the village into The Center. When
mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their apartment,
Cipriano and Marcal investigate, and what they find transforms the
family's life. Filled with the depth, humor, and the extraordinary
philosophical richness that marks each of Saramago's novels, The
Cave is one of the essential books of our time.
Ana Luisa Amaral is considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese
poets of her day, and although her poetry has been translated into
many other languages, this is the first major collection of her
poems to be published in English. Born in Oporto in 1956, and, for
many years, Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the
University of Oporto, Ana Luisa Amaral published her first
collection of poems, Minha Senhora de Que, in 1990, and has since
published many more, along with plays, children's literature, a
novel and translations from English. Her work has brought her many
prizes both in Portugal and elsewhere. Her poems are resolutely
female, but she casts her net very wide in terms of subject matter,
from tender poems about her daughter to thoughts provoked by
finding a crumb lodged in the pages of a second-hand book to
musings about Galileo, the theory of relativity and the larger
themes of loneliness, loss, and death. She is a writer immersed in
her own culture, but steeped, too, in the poetry, for example, of
Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, and in the world of the Bible and
the Greek myths. The result is a poetry that takes equal pleasure
in the physical and metaphysical, playing with words and ideas, a
poetry that is always refreshingly oblique, taking the reader down
unexpected intellectual and linguistic paths. Her poetry invites
readers to share her own wonder and perplexity at life's joys and
griefs.
Ana Luisa Amaral is considered to be one of the foremost Portuguese
poets of her day, and although her poetry has been translated into
many other languages, this is the first major collection of her
poems to be published in English. Born in Oporto in 1956, and, for
many years, Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the
University of Oporto, Ana Luisa Amaral published her first
collection of poems, Minha Senhora de Que, in 1990, and has since
published many more, along with plays, children's literature, a
novel and translations from English. Her work has brought her many
prizes both in Portugal and elsewhere. Her poems are resolutely
female, but she casts her net very wide in terms of subject matter,
from tender poems about her daughter to thoughts provoked by
finding a crumb lodged in the pages of a second-hand book to
musings about Galileo, the theory of relativity and the larger
themes of loneliness, loss, and death. She is a writer immersed in
her own culture, but steeped, too, in the poetry, for example, of
Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare, and in the world of the Bible and
the Greek myths. The result is a poetry that takes equal pleasure
in the physical and metaphysical, playing with words and ideas, a
poetry that is always refreshingly oblique, taking the reader down
unexpected intellectual and linguistic paths. Her poetry invites
readers to share her own wonder and perplexity at life's joys and
griefs.
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Tomás Nevinson (Paperback)
Javier Marías; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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Tomás Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for the British Embassy
in Madrid when his former handler, the sinister Bertram Tupra, offers
to bring him back inside for one last assignment. His mission: to catch
and, if necessary, kill a terrorist gone to ground in Northern Spain
after bombings in Barcelona and Zaragoza. The trouble is there are
three suspects – all women – and it may not actually be any of them. To
find out, Nevinson must move incognito to the small town where the
three women separately live, and become an intimate friend to each, in
the hope of uncovering a clue . . .
A philosophical thriller with a climate of suspense to rival le Carré
and a psychological depth that is purely Marias’s own, this is a novel
that explores the deepest of human questions: in what circumstances can
killing be called just?
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The Maias (Paperback)
Eca De Queiroz; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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The Book of Disquiet is one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, it was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind by Pessoa after his death in 1935.
Now this fragmentary modernist masterpiece appears in a major new edition that unites Margaret Jull Costa's celebrated translation with the most complete version of the text ever produced. It is presented here, for the first time in English, by order of original composition, and accompanied by facsimiles of the original manuscript.
Narrated principally by an assistant bookkeeper named Bernardo Soares - an alias of sorts for Pessoa himself - The Book of Disquiet is 'the autobiobraphy of someone who never existed', a mosaic of dreams, of hope and despair; a hymn to the streets and cafés of 1930s Lisbon, and an extraordinary record of the inner life of one of the century's most important writers. This new edition represents the most complete vision of Pessoa's genius.
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Great Spanish Stories - 10 Parallel Texts
Various; Edited by Margaret Jull Costa; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Thomas Bunstead, Peter Bush, …
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This hand-picked selection from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short
Stories celebrates the best literature to emerge from Spain since
the twentieth century. From a poignant personal betrayal to a
darkly humorous exchange between two wedding guests, this sparkling
collection provides unique cultural insight and literary
inspiration for language learners. Includes works from beloved
authors such as Javier MarĂas, Carmen Laforet and more.
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Tomás Nevinson (Paperback)
Javier MarĂas; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa; Afterword by Margaret Jull Costa
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THE GRIPPING FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS
GENERATION, JAVIER MARĂŤAS 'The most subtle and gifted writer in
contemporary Spanish literature' Boston Globe Spain in the 1990s is
beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists
ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against
this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomás
Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is
approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an
offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment:
a favour for Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for
a powerful Spanish friend. His mission: to go back undercover, in a
small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved
there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the
IRA, now on the run and living there incognito. Everything about
the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be
working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete
out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But,
still in his forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on
the inside, he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three
women, his task becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose
between these three? Intimately involved with each of them, as
lover, colleague or friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the
question. But under increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose
- and act - he apparently must . . . Charting a world where right
and wrong, and good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier
MarĂas takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in
this, the final novel written before his untimely passing IN 2022.
PRAISE FOR JAVIER MARĂŤAS: 'Unquestionably the most significant
Spanish writer of his generation' Observer '[MarĂas] uses language
like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets
of that strangest of species, the human being' W. G. Sebald 'One of
the greatest contemporary novelists' Le Monde 'A great writer'
Salman Rushdie
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My Father's House
Karmele Jaio; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Sophie Hughes
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A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a
dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every
second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and
dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and
pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family.
Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one
morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping
pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There
she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days
to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days as
to her surprise she finds herself experiencing feelings she has
never really felt before. Against all odds she finds herself
falling in love and even wanting to live again…
One night at the theatre, Vitor da Silva, a young law graduate,
sees a strikingly beautiful woman. Her name is Genoveva. Originally
from Madeira, she has lived for many many years in Paris. Her rich
French husband has died and she is in Lisbon with a view possibly
to settling there. Genoveva, however, is not what she seems. Behind
the mutual attraction between her and Vitor lies a terrible secret.
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Vampire in Love (Hardcover)
Enrique Vila-Matas; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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Gathered for the first time in English and spanning his entire
career, Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master
Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate,
hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choir
boy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras's
Paris apartment and watches his dinner companion slip into the
abyss. An unsuspecting man receives a mysterious phone call from a
lonely ophthalmologist and visits his abandoned villa. The stories
in Vampire in Love, selected and brilliantly translated by Margaret
Jull Costa, are all told with Vila-Matas's delightful erudition and
wit, and his provocative questioning of the interrelation of art
and life.
Eca de Queiroz's sharply satirical work aimed to expose the
hypocrisies of his age. In The Mandarin his lascivious anti-heroes
Teodoro and Teodorico, are dragged from their narrow Lisbon lives
into exotic encounters with Chinese mandarins, the Devil (in the
guise of a dark-suited civil servant)and Jesus Christ Himself. This
short novel is accompanied by the short stories Jose Matias, The
Hanged Man and The Idiosyncrasies of a young blonde woman.
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction
sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on
the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform
the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between
1967 and 1977, the internationally renowned author Clarice
Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the
Jornal do Brasil. Already famous for her revolutionary, interior,
metaphysical novels and short stories, in her Chronicles she turned
her attention to the everyday, reshaping the material of her life
into profound, touching and funny, tiny revelations. Observing the
world around her, small encounters like hearing tales of the lost
loves of a taxi driver, or the bitterness lurking beneath the
prettiness of an old friend, become an exposition of the currents
and foibles that define our lives. Everything from the meaning of
cosmonauts to the new ideas, writers and artists that populate the
sparkling international world of the sixties and seventies are
considered and transformed into jewels of insight, delight and
devastation. Sincere and playful, exhilarating and contemplative,
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles opens up a new way of seeing
the world.
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World (Paperback)
Ana LuĂsa Amaral; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
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World—Ana LuĂsa Amaral’s second collection with New
Directions—offers a new exhilarating set of poems that convey
wonder, bemusement and an ever-deepening appreciation of life.
Weaving the thread that connects the poem to life, World speaks of
our immense human perplexity in the face of everything around us
and our oneness with it all. As Amaral notes, all of us, “humans
and non-humans, are on the same ontological level, the differences
being only a matter of perspective. We are all made of the same
stuff as dreams—and stars.” Asked about her thoughts on World,
Amaral’s peerless translator Margaret Jull Costa replied: “What
I take from this collection of poems is a sense of joy in the
ordinary—seeing an ant going about its business, or a bee or a
fish, or the feeling of sharing a whole history with a particular
table, or watching a very ordinary woman sitting on a train playing
with the handle of her handbag. World also brings us meditations on
colonisation, slavery and whaling. Like the world, it is full of
surprises and full of joy and sadness.” These vibrant, exultant
poems invite you to share this marvellous world: Yes, all you need
(how easy!) is to say yes.
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Adultery (Paperback)
Paulo Coelho; Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Zoe Perry
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The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling
author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every
morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day, she feels
like closing them again. Her friends recommend medication. But
Linda wants to feel more, not less. And so she embarks on an
adventure as unexpected as it is daring, and which reawakens a side
of her that she - respectable wife, loving mother, ambitious
journalist - thought had disappeared. Even she can't predict what
will happen next...
"I passed away at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday in
August in 1869, in my beautiful mansion in the Catumbi district of
the city." So begins Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas-at the end of
the narrator's life. Published in 1881, this highly experimental
novel was not at first considered Machado de Assis' definitive
work-a fact his narrator anticipated, bidding "good riddance" to
the critic looking for a "run-of-the-mill-novel". Yet in this
coruscating new translation, Margaret Jull Costa and Robin
Patterson reveal a pivotal moment in Machado's career, as his
flights of the surreal became his literary hallmark. An enigmatic,
amusing and frequently insufferable anti hero, Bras Cubas describes
his Rio de Janeiro childhood spent tormenting household slaves, his
bachelor years of torrid affairs and his final days obsessing over
nonsensical poultices. A novel that helped launch modernist
fiction, Bras Cubas shines a direct light to Ulysses and Love in
the Time of Cholera.
A collection of insightful philosophical thoughts and stories, in which Paulo Coehlo offers inspiring answers to profound questions to delight spiritual seekers everywhere. It has proved to be a perfect gift-book in the few countries in which it has been published so far. This will be the first English translation.
This book is a jewel for all of us who look for meaning in our daily lives as we struggle along the spiritual path. Within each of us is a Warrior of Light. Each of us capable of listening to the silence of the heart, of accepting failure without letting it get us down and of holding onto hope even in the face of weariness and depression. Values like love for all things, discipline, friendship and learning to listen to our own hearts are the arms with which this warrior confronts the battles we face in the name of personal growth and in the defence of the light. On every page there is an inspirational thought, which can be read as part of Paulo Coelho's whole philosophy or used form the basis of a daily meditation. The Manual of the Warrior of Light is a handbook that shows human beings how to live as spiritual beings in the material world.
Slippery figures in anomalous situations - ghosts, spies,
bodyguards, criminals- haunt these stories by Javier Marias: the
characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and
never leave our minds. In one story, a man obsessed with his much
younger lover endlessly videotapes her every move, and then
confides his surprising plans for her; in another, a ghost can't
stop resigning from his job. Masterfully, Marias manages in a small
space to perplex and delight. "The short story fits Marias like a
glove," as Le point noted. His stories have been hailed as
"formidably intelligent" (The London Review of Books), "a bracing
tonic" (The Chicago Tribune), and "startling" (The New York Times
Book Review).
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