Books from Portugal
51 popular portuguese books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Portugal.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Our Lady of the Pillar by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz EN
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In this classic of Portuguese literature, E�a de Queir�s's greatest incursion into the fantastic, a young nobleman falls in love with a married woman and is entrapped by her husband, but help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.
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"16-year-old Raquel lives in a small town in Portugal, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else's business. Her parents are divorced and she's just been suspended for cursing out a school aide asking about her father's new marriage. She has two best friends, Luísa and Fred, but wants something more. Then, from afar, she sees Pardalita, a senior and a gifted artist who's moving to Lisbon to study in the fall. The two girls get to know each other while working on a play. And Raquel falls in love. Using a gorgeous blend of prose poems, illustrations, and graphic novel format, Estrela ... continue
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RETORNO, O by DULCE MARIA CARDOSO PT
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Em 1975, um ano após a Revolução dos Cravos, Portugal perde as suas colônias. Em poucos meses, o país recebe mais de meio milhão de retornados, que de uma hora para a outra precisam abandonar suas casas. É nesse contexto que o leitor poderá conhecer a história do narrador- Rui, um adolescente nascido em Luanda.
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Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented turnout of blank ballots and rebellious acts that prompt a state of emergency declaration. By the Nobel Prize for Literature-winning author of Blindness. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa EN
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For the first time--and in the best translation ever--the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison