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Vista Chinesa (Paperback)
Tatiana Salem Levy; Translated by Alison Entrekin
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Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943,
introduced Brazil to what one writer called Hurricane Clarice: a
twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny
rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: He
was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.
The book was an unprecedented sensation the discovery of a
genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life
of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy
marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims:
I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt. "
From one of Brazil's rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella
about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true events. It
is 2014. There is euphoria in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro.
The World Cup is about to take place and the Olympics are in sight.
It is a time of hope and frenzied construction. Julia is a partner
with an architectural firm working on the future Olympic village.
During a break from a meeting at the town hall, she goes for a run
in the hillside neighbourhood of Alto da Boa Vista. There, a man
puts a revolver to her head, takes her to a secluded spot, and
rapes her. Left abandoned in the woods, she drags herself home,
where her boyfriend and family members are waiting for her. Vista
Chinesa brings light and shadow to a city whose stunning beauty
cannot conceal the most serious human and political problems, and
gives voice to a story that is tragically not uncommon.
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My Sweet Orange Tree (Paperback)
Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos; Translated by Alison Entrekin
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Meet Zezé - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for
mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants
to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing
pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro
neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he
meets a real friend, and his life begins to change...
My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature -
never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it
has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and
won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to Turkey,
Poland to Thailand and in many other countries too.
Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to
the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and
earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of
Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who
writes poems for her father, through her marriage to the faithless
Otávio and on to her decision to make her own way in the world. As
Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states,
different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic,
dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever
really know who we are. Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist
and short story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her
international renown. References to her literary work pervade the
music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. She was born in
the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the
Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually sailed
to Brazil. In 1933, Clarice Lispector encountered Hermann Hesse's
Steppenwolf, which convinced her that she was meant to write. She
published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart in 1943 when she
was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça
Aranha Prize for the best first novel. Many felt she had given
Brazillian literature a unique voice in the larger context of
Portuguese literature. After living variously in Italy, the UK,
Switzerland and the US, in 1959, Lispector with her children
returned to Brazil where she wrote her most influential novels
including The Passion According to G.H. She died in 1977, shortly
after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
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My German Brother (Paperback)
Chico Buarque; Translated by Alison Entrekin
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