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Pardalita by Joana Estrela EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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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

1792.

Ecologia : romance by Joana Bértholo PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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Numa sociedade que se fundiu com o mercado – tudo se compra, tudo se vende – começamos a pagar pelas palavras. A estranheza inicial dá lugar ao entusiasmo. Afinal, como é que falar podia permanecer gratuito? Há seis mil idiomas no mundo. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «ecologia», e tão pouca ecologia. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «paz», e tão pouca paz. Seis mil formas diferentes de dizer «juntos», e é cada um por si.

1793.

Seeing by José Saramago EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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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.



1796.

Ensayo sobre la ceguera by Jose Saramago ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Saramago arranca con una idea interesante: ¿Qué pasaría si…? En este caso, elabora un ensayo sobre que pasaría si todos quedaran ciegos, en forma de historia en torno a un grupo de personajes. Tiene humor, historia, situaciones, reflexiones y una prosa muy interesante, casi española. Lo sucedido, las opiniones, los mecanismos lógicos son del autor, que a pesar de escenas terribles, se cuida de evitar el espanto. Buena.

1797.

Una niña está perdida en su siglo en busca de su padre by Gonçalo M. Tavares ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
Marius, que parece huir de algo, se une a Hanna, una adolescente con Síndrome de Down, en la búsqueda de su padre. Los lugares que visitan y los personajes que conocen (así como los sueños) adquieren un valor simbólico que pretenden caracterizar el siglo XX. La modalidad recuerda a El Principito, en que la simpatía de Hannah le abre las puertas a los diversos mundos, aunque lo simbólico de cada caso es más complejo y también más inquietante. Aunque la redacción dificulta un poco la lectura, muy bueno.

1798.

Death at Intervals by José Saramago EN

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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"On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. his understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if there s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration- flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity... continue

1799.

The Songs of António Botto by António Boto, Fernando Pessoa, Josiah Blackmore EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
The rediscovery of a major voice in modern gay poetry and twentieth-century letters.

1800.

Claraboia by Jose Saramago PT

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Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
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Terminado em 1953 e inédito até depois da morte do autor, Claraboia narra com aguda percepção psicológica o dia a dia e as angústias dos moradores de um modesto prédio de apartamentos em Lisboa, e revela um Saramago em pleno domínio da narrativa. Primavera de 1952. Um prédio de seis apartamentos numa rua modesta de Lisboa é o cenário principal das histórias simultâneas que compõem este romance da juventude de José Saramago. Os dramas cotidianos dos moradores - donas de casa, funcionários remediados, trabalhadores manuais - tecem uma trama multifacetada, repleta de elementos do consagrado estil... continue


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