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  • The Lady of Solitude

    by Paula Parisot ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe, Clifford E. Landers ...
    Series series Brazilian Literature
    The Lady of Solitude projects a fresh and daring new voice on to the Brazilian literary scene. These transgressive and highly charged erotic stories are all written from a woman's point of view and they offer an unexpected perspective on the world, sex and desire in a changing Brazilian and global context. That is not to say that all of Parisot's characters are strong, emancipated and resolute: ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Backlands

    The Canudos Campaign

    by Euclides da Cunha ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literatureWritten by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Commission of Tears

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Portuguese Literature
    António Lobo Antunes’s twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach

    by Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer.The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

    The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323

    by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinas's theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominican Order. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers ran counter to every other current running through the late thirteenth-century Church; most scholastics, the Dominican Order included, were wary of the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Time Binds

    Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

    by Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse modernities
    Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation of time as she interprets an eclectic archive of queer literature, film, video, and art. She examines ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Last Twist of the Knife

    by João Almino ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Brazilian Literature
    After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Brasília to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil’s northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved childhood obsessions, fantasies, traumas resurface, threatening to overwhelm his very sense of identity. Consumed with thoughts of revenge against the man ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze

    by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis ...
    A thirteen-year-old boy in 1920s China learns about hard work and life in the big city in this classic coming-of-age-story.When Young Fu arrives with his mother in bustling 1920s Chungking, all he has seen of the world is the rural farming village where he has grown up. He knows nothing of city life. But the city, with its wonders and dangers, fascinates the thirteen-year-old boy, and he sets out ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Esau and Jacob

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Esau and Jacob

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Interventions into Modernist Cultures

    Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen

    by Lisa Lowe, Amie Elizabeth Parry ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Eunice and Cricket

    by Elizabeth Weston Timlow ...
    In "Eunice and Cricket," readers can expect a heartwarming tale that likely revolves around the friendship between the two titular characters, Eunice and Cricket. The novel may follow their adventures, trials, and triumphs as they navigate the challenges of growing up, forming bonds, and discovering themselves.Timlow's writing style typically includes vivid descriptions, relatable characters, and ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus