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Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Júnior
£11.77Longlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that one of us was holding her tongue in her hand.'Deep in... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £8.99£6.45In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £7.99£5.79Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99£7.11Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little... -
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99£7.11A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting,... -
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £3.00£2.49'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty,... -
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
RRP: £11.99£8.29Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £14.99£10.95The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780241371350
RRP: £12.99£9.09Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it... -
Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
RRP: £12.99£8.56Here at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaima, by Mario de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaima and his brothers as they leave... -
Vista Chinesa: ‘Sits somewhere between the experimental novels of Eimear McBride and Leila Slimani’s more shocking output’ – The Sunday Times by Tatiana Salem Levy
RRP: £8.99£5.92From one of Brazil's rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true events. It is 2014. There is euphoria in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. The World Cup is about to take place and the... -
Resistance by Julian Fuks
RRP: £12.99£8.94My brother is adopted, but I can't say and don't want to say that my brother is adopted. If I say this, if I speak these words that I have long taken care to silence, I reduce my brother to a single categorical condition, a single essential attribute...A... -
The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel 9781954404120
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards (Translation) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781954404120Author Stenio GardelFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New... -
December Heat: An Inspector Espinosa Mystery by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza 9780312423438
RRP: £21.00£13.16Called in to help an old friend and retired police officer, who awoke one morning to find his prostitute girlfriend murdered, his wallet and keys missing, and no memory of the previous night's occurrences, Inspector Espinosa takes the case only to find... -
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
RRP: £17.99£15.90A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to... -
Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian Jean-Christophe Godard 9781915103086
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915103086Author Jean-Christophe GodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
Resurrection by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: £10.99£9.08Machado de Assis's first novel visits themes the author developed exquisitely throughout his career including marriage, memory, and perspective. In this insightful translation by Karen Sherwood Sotelino, and with an introduction by Jose Luiz Passos, the... -
Dutch Gringa in Brazil by Mathilde Scholtes 9789083374918
RRP: £14.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083374918Author Mathilde ScholtesFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Mathilde ScholtesPublisher Mathilde ScholtesWeight(grams) 345g -
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo 9781632063465
RRP: £14.99£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632063465Author Patrícia MeloFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books -
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer 9780811237475
RRP: £11.99£11.76In the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, one summer in the 1970s, a family—a husband and wife, their daughter, and their crippled teenage son Camilo—take in an orphan named Cosme. The boys unexpectedly fall in love, but an act of violence shatters their...