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The man who knew Javanese and other stories

by Lima Barreto, Vanessa Rodrigues Thiago, Talyssa Carnero, Joana Arari, Patrícia Leite, Júlia Kohl, Laís Sperandei de Oliveira, Giovanna Morari ...

Translated by Carlos H. Rutz, Joana de Lima, Victor S. Pastor, Gabriela Gussoni ...

The seventeen short stories in this volume, originally published after Lima Barreto's death, depict his sharp and honest observation of the Rio de Janeiro society of his time. Here, we meet characters who lie and pretend in order to try to get ahead in life. We will see stories of corruption and betrayal and will face our own values while we enjoy Barreto's sharp and witty writing. ... Read more

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The seventeen short stories in this volume, originally published after Lima Barreto's death, depict his sharp and honest observation of the Rio de Janeiro society of his time. Here, we meet characters who lie and pretend in order to try to get ahead in life. We will see stories of corruption and betrayal and will face our own values while we enjoy Barreto's sharp and witty writing.
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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez ...

Series series Vintage International
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away ... Read more

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away
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The Collected Novels of Josè Saramago

by José Saramago ...

**This essential anthology presents thirteen acclaimed works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness—with an introduction by Ursula Le Guin.This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel ... Read more

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**This essential anthology presents thirteen acclaimed works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness—with an introduction by Ursula Le Guin.This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel
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South From Granada

by Gerald Brenan ...

Series series Penguin Modern Classics
Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and ... Read more

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Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts his time there, vividly evoking the essence of his rural surroundings and the Spanish way of life before the Civil War. Here he portrays the landscapes, festivals and folk-lore of the Sierra Nevada, the rivalries, romances and courtship rituals, village customs, superstitions and
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El Filibusterismo

by Jose Rizal ...

Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero ...

Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books. Filipinos, inspired by Rizal, made the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic ... Read more

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Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books. Filipinos, inspired by Rizal, made the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic
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Dom Casmurro

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson ...

Series series Library of Latin America
"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a ... Read more

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"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ...

Series series Library of Latin America
Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The ... Read more

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Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...

Dive into the whirlwind life and afterlife of Brás Cubas, a man who decides to tell his story from beyond the grave. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is not your typical ghost story but a daring, humorous, and profoundly introspective journey through the eyes of a deceased narrator. This groundbreaking novel by Machado de Assis, a titan of Brazilian literature, blends dark comedy, ... Read more

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Dive into the whirlwind life and afterlife of Brás Cubas, a man who decides to tell his story from beyond the grave. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is not your typical ghost story but a daring, humorous, and profoundly introspective journey through the eyes of a deceased narrator. This groundbreaking novel by Machado de Assis, a titan of Brazilian literature, blends dark comedy,
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Orphans of Eldorado

by Milton Hatoum ...

Series series Canongate Myths
This reimagining of the Amazon's greatest legend by the prize-winning Brazilian author of The Brothers "does what every good telling of a myth should" ( Financial Times).The setting for this fable is Eldorado, the Enchanted city that inhabited the fevered dreams of European navigators and conquistadors, but eluded all attempts to find it on the map. Some have linked it to Manaus, Brazil's capitol ... Read more

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This reimagining of the Amazon's greatest legend by the prize-winning Brazilian author of The Brothers "does what every good telling of a myth should" ( Financial Times).The setting for this fable is Eldorado, the Enchanted city that inhabited the fevered dreams of European navigators and conquistadors, but eluded all attempts to find it on the map. Some have linked it to Manaus, Brazil's capitol
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The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...

by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...

New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as ... Read more

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New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as
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A Visit to Don Otavio

A Mexican Odyssey

by Sybille Bedford ...

Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford, is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel- trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish against her face- she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our ... Read more

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Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford, is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel- trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish against her face- she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our
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El Filibusterismo

by José Rizal ...

El Filibusterismo by José RizalEl Filibusterismo is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere, and picks up thirteen years after Crisóstomo Ibarra disappeared, assumed dead after fleeing from the Civil Guard. Returning to the Philippines in disguise, he involves himself in the lives of those he once knew. Ibarra works with the ruling class to make life miserable for the native population, hoping to frustrate ... Read more

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El Filibusterismo by José RizalEl Filibusterismo is the sequel to Noli Me Tangere, and picks up thirteen years after Crisóstomo Ibarra disappeared, assumed dead after fleeing from the Civil Guard. Returning to the Philippines in disguise, he involves himself in the lives of those he once knew. Ibarra works with the ruling class to make life miserable for the native population, hoping to frustrate
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