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The Discovery of America by the Turks
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99For the first time in English: legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado's spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America?published for the centennial of Amado's birth Two Arab immigrants?"Turks" as Brazilians call them?arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier on the same ship in 1903, hoping to find a future. They rub shoulders with gunslingers... more...
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99The great Brazilian novelist's comic masterpiece?published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado's birth Here is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, king of the Bahia lowlife and a "champion drunk." After... more...
The Ladies Gallery
Other Press 2009; US$ 14.95A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar, granddaughter of Lolita Lebrón, the revered political activist for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire, wounding several congressmen, and served twenty-seven years in prison.... more...
Captains of the Sands
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 9.99A Brazilian Lord of the Flies , about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia They call themselves ?Captains of the Sands,? a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old ?Bullet,? the band?including a crafty liar... more...
Quincas Borba
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 15.99Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens... more...
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 15.99Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil. This text is a translation of his memoirs. more...
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