Books set in Brazil (22)
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A pediatra by Andréa del Fuego PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Cecília é o oposto do que se imagina de uma pediatra – uma mulher sem espírito maternal, pouco apreço por crianças e zero paciência para os pais e mães que as acompanham. Porém a medicina era um caminho natural para ela, que seguiu os passos do pai. Apesar de sua frieza com os pacientes, ela tem um consultório bem-sucedido, mas aos poucos se vê perdendo lugar para um pediatra humanista, que trabalha com doulas, parteiras e acompanha até partos domiciliares. Mesmo a obstetra cesarista com quem Cecília sempre... continue
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Amora: Stories by Natalia Borges Polesso EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance. Amora dares explore the way women love each other--the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all ... continue
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Angola Janga by Marcelo d'Salete EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D’Salete brings history to life; the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom. At turns heartbreaking and empowering, Angola Janga sheds light on a long-overlooked moment of resistance against oppression.
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Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations and comments on the structure of the story, blurring the line between fiction and reality and appearing very modern.
5.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands : A Moral and Amorous Tale by Jorge Amado EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes–a gambler notorious for never winning—dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husband’s amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights.
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Family Ties by Clarice Lispector EN
UkraineDescription:
Tells the stories of a fearful adolescent, an angry old woman, a dog's burial, a possessive mother and her son, a businessman's dinner, and a French explorer in Africa
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Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
'My whole life I've avoided mirrors because I didn't really like what they had to show me, but today is different. Because I look at my reflection and don't hate myself right away.' Felipe doesn't believe someone like Caio could ever fall for someone like him. But over the next fifteen days, everything will change ...
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Instrucciones para un descenso al infierno by Doris May Lessing ES
IranDescription:
A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny. Time; Touching and beautiful. The New York Review of Books; An excursion into private consciousness...beginning with everyday mentality and ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive. The Washington Post Book World
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It Is Wood, It Is Stone : A Novel by Gabriella Burnham EN
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
"Takes place over the course of a year in Säao Paulo, Brazil, [where] which two women's lives intersect: Linda, an anxious and restless American ... and [her] skilled maid Marta, [who] has more claim to Linda's home than she can fathom. [This is a] debut novel by young Brazilian American author Gabriella Burnham ... about women whose romantic and subversive entanglements reflect on class and colorism, sexuality, and complex, divisive histories"--
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