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Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where women are burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolomeu Lourenco, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the Crown and the Church clash, they purse his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.
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1653.

O Paraíso São Os Outros by Valter Hugo Mae PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
"O paraíso são os outros" de Valter Hugo Mãe, ganha nova edição pela Biblioteca Azul com ilustrações do autor inéditas no Brasil. "O paraíso são os outros", uma menina volta seu olhar pueril para os casais. Casais de pessoas e de animais, de homem e mulher, de mulher com mulher, de golfinhos e de pinguins. Uma menina a quem o amor intriga e fascina. Uma menina que ao imaginar a vida dos outros, sonha com a pessoa que um dia irá amar. Sua voz inocente toca tanto as crianças quanto os adultos. A nova edição desta obra do aclamado escritor português Valter Hugo Mãe traz ilustrações do autor e tex... continue

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The Stone Raft by José Saramago EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads.


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I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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Written in the voices of four different alter egos, these verses express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings


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RETORNO, O by DULCE MARIA CARDOSO PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
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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The Colours of Death

The Colours of Death by Patricia Marques EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
'Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' Val McDermid, bestselling author of Still Life 'Compelling and original, this glints with freshness' Daily Mail 'A brilliantly inventive and twisty tale' Claire McGowan, bestselling author of The Push 'A good detective story . . . intriguing' Guardian 'A distinctive, intriguing, immersive debut' Mari Hannah, multi-award winning author of Without a Trace The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according ... continue

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O banqueiro anarquista by Fernando Pessoa PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Um banqueiro anarquista pode nos trazer certa estranheza. O banqueiro aqui retratado por Pessoa, considera toda a sua vida um exemplo de anarquismo e descreve como consegue resolver diversas contradições e dúvidas até chegar à 'técnica do anarquista'.