As aventuras de Pinóquio
Written by Collodi Published: 1976 Type: Paperback Category: Literature Language: Portuguese
Written by Collodi Published: 1976 Type: Paperback Category: Literature Language: Portuguese
Written by João de Barros Published: 1974 Type: Paperback Category: Literature Language: Portuguese
Written by Maria da Graça Videira Lopes Published: 1978 Type: Paperback Category: Literature Language: Portuguese
A city is stuck by an epidemic of “white blindness”. The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not known what to make of the phenomenon – and soon goes blind himself. The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine […]
When Sabby Mendes leave Portuguese Goa aboard the dhow Monsoon Wind bound for British East Africa in 1916, he has one dream – to find work as a tailor in the relatively new capital of Nairobi. Sabby is a young man, still a teenager, but he is determined to build a life for himself, and […]
Era uma vez um rei que fez promessa de levantar um convento em Mafra. Era uma vez a gente que construiu esse convento. Era uma vez um soldado maneta e uma mulher que tinha poderes. Era uma vez um padre que queria coar e morreu doido. Era uma vez. Written by José Saramago Published: 2005 Type: Paperback […]
Um escritor é um homem como os outros: sonha. E o meu sonho foi o de poder dizer deste livro, quando o terminasse: «Isto é o Alentejo». Dos sonhos, porém, acordamos todos, e agora eis-me não diante do sonho realizado, mas da concreta e possível forma do sonho. Por isso me limitarei a escrever: «Isto […]
A kind of dialogue with Machado Assis’ previous novel, Memórias Póstumas de Bras Cubas, Quincas Borba shares the same characters and situations. In a narrative that mixes both first and third person, this novel tells the story of Rubio, a former teacher who becomes rich when he receives an inheritance from Quincas Borba, a rich philosopher who […]
