The Blood of Others

Author	Charles Dickens
ISBN	0140430687

From the rear covers of these two volumes: "Dickens's 'Christmas Books' were all written for the Christmas market and published in the same format. Apart from this they have little in common; unless it is the emphasis they lay on family love and the delights of home, and the beneficial effects of memory....

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Nadine Gordimer

Will, playing truant, bumps into his father with a white woman at a movie theater. A narrative unfolds of reflections enmeshed with aggressive personal bitterness and the political upheaval of the times in South Africa. Nadine Gordimer’s 'My Son’s Story' becomes the story of the son, the father,...

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Mia Couto

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...

Author	Agustina Bessa-Luís
ISBN	8496075591

Fanny Owen é uma história verídica passada em 1850 entre José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães (proprietário da quinta do Lodeiro, poeta rapaz triste e desinteressado da vida), Fanny Owen (filha do coronel Owen, auxiliar e conselheiro militar de D. Pedro aquando das lutas liberais) e o próprio Camilo...

Author	Gao Xingjian
ISBN	0060575557

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer Gao Xingjian is that rare breed of artist able to express himself with equal grace in almost any form of literature. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his astonishing talents. The collection Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather...

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Marguerite Yourcenar

En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar, l'auteur des Mémoires d'Hadrien, ne raconte pas seulement le destin tragique d'un homme extraordinaire. C'est toute une époque qui revit dans son infinie richesse, comme aussi dans son âcre et...

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Miguel Torga

«E que história a sua! - pícara, ingénua, maliciosa, safada, trágica, ao fim, porque em tragédia sempre morrem os mitos. […] E, no entanto, que mais português que o Ventura, na sua peregrinação, entre mortos e feridos, miséria e grandeza, amores e traições, fomes e febres, e alegrias...

Author	Lídia Jorge
ISBN	8493264512

A Costa dos Murmúrios, publicado em 1988, é o mais famoso romance de Lídia Jorge, tanto em Portugal como no estrangeiro. O seu aparecimento foi um êxito desde o primeiro momento, tendo chegado a vender cerca de 50.000 exemplares em menos de um ano. A obra é produto da experiência que a autora viveu...

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Jorge de Sena

Romance único de Jorge de Sena, parcela de um projecto romancesco de grande dimensão cuja designação genérica seria Monte Cativo, objectivando o recorte de uma geração nascida nos finais dos anos 10 do século XX, Sinais de Fogo abriga em si o despertar de um jovem, entre um grupo de amigos e familiares,...

Author	Raul Brandão
ISBN	8496075605

Colecção Mil Folhas, #57

Considerada a obra-prima de Raul Brandão, foi publicada em 1917. Trata-se de um romance-monólogo, centrado em dois monólogos interiores: um primeiro orador e o seu alter-ego, um filósofo lunático. Com a narração dominada por estes dois pontos de vista,...

Author	Mário de Carvalho
ISBN	9722110195

Mário de Carvalho convoca-nos a todos. A nós e aos nossos conhecidos. Faz humor com ilusões e desilusões, amores e desamores, graças e desgraças.

O Partido Comunista não escapa à ironia. Brilha a deslumbrante Lisboa, mas também outros locais e endereços. Eduarda Galvão é o protótipo...

Author	José Cardoso Pires
ISBN	9722007165

O romance foi escrito no período pós-revolução de 25 de Abril de 1974. A acção situa-se no princípio dos anos 60, e retrata alguns aspectos da sociedade portuguesa em plena época da ditadura salazarista. Relata a investigação dum assassínio; e a história começa com o relatório da descoberta...

Author	João de Melo
ISBN	8496075427

Colecção Mil Folhas, #29

Quando tinha 22 anos, em 1971, João de Melo foi enviado para a guerra que se travava entre Portugal e Angola, uma das suas colónias. Durante mais de dois anos, o romancista permaneceu em África como militar adstrito aos serviços militares de saúde. Dessa experiência...

Author	Rubem Fonseca
ISBN	8497892550

Entre os escritores brasileiros contemporâneos, Rubem Fonseca foi um dos primeiros a encarar sem rodeios a violência urbana em todos os estratos sociais, do traficante ao empresário, da socialite à prostituta, do mendigo ao banqueiro.
Sempre com um estilo direto, coloquial, cortante,...

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William S. Burroughs

A newly issued and reformatted, beautifully designed larger version of this bilingual German/English work, published in Germany by Pociao's Expanded Media Editions, featuring a photo of the author by Brion Gysin. "I have described here a number of weapons and tactics in the war game. Weapons that...

Author	Marguerite Duras
ISBN	0394563204

Not my sort of thing. Apologies to GR friends who love this book. (Though I've now noticed that some others friends' opinions of Duras' most famous book, The Lover (1984) are similar to mine about this one.)

It's the mood and sparseness that I didn't like, in this archetypally French, archetypally...

Author	Henry Miller
ISBN	0811205568

Das lachein am fusse der leiter = The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Henry Miller
First published in 1959, this touching fable tells of Auguste, a famous clown who could make people laugh but who sought to impart to his audiences a lasting joy. Originally inspired by a series of circus and clown drawings...

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José Eduardo Agualusa

Nação Crioula conta a história de um amor secreto: a misteriosa ligação entre o aventureiro português Carlos Fradique Mendes – cuja correspondência Eça de Queiroz recolheu – e Ana Olímpia Vaz de Caminha, que, tendo nascido escrava, foi uma das pessoas mais ricas e poderosas de Angola....

Author	Boris Vian
ISBN	0966234642

Boris Vian was a jack of all trades - although unfortunately his name was Boris and "Boris of all trades" never took off as a turn of phrase. But nevertheless Vian was a great songwriter, playwright, singer, jazz critic and, of course novelist so it should have been Boris instead of Jack. Vian's 1947 novel...

Author	Deirdre Bair
ISBN	0671741802

This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional...

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	1564781402

The Last Days is Raymond Queneau's autobiographical novel of Parisian student life in the 1920s: Vincent Tuquedenne tries to reconcile his love for reading with the sterility of studying as he hopes to study his way out of the petite bourgeoisie to which he belongs. Vincent and his generation are contrasted...

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Irving Wallace

In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy?

"Michael...

Author	Georges Simenon
ISBN	0241258553

Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But one night, this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he catches...

Author	Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN	0684193388

Witness to My Life is a collection of letters written by Jean-Paul Sartre and edited, compiled, and mostly written to Simone de Beauvoir. Sartre's and Simone's romance was legendary, and in this collection, one can partake of that romance incarnate. Also, this is quite the Romantic work with a capital...

Author	Annie Ernaux
ISBN	1564781399

Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's most...