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Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Júnior
RRP: $14.18$9.35Longlisted 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... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $12.89$9.17Clarice 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... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $11.60$8.32In 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: $10.31$7.47Living 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... -
Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia
RRP: $15.47$10.69Animals 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... -
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $3.87$3.21'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: $12.89$9.17One 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,... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $19.34$14.13The 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: $16.76$11.73Described 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... -
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: $11.60$7.64From 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... -
Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector
RRP: $12.89$9.17A 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,... -
Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade
RRP: $16.76$11.04Here 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... -
Resistance by Julian Fuks
RRP: $16.76$11.53My 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... -
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
RRP: $21.92$19.01A 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 by Jean-Christophe Godard 9781915103086
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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 -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780811226752
RRP: $20.63$17.31“It’s the best one,” Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: “I can’t define it, how it is, I can only say that it’s much better constructed than the previous ones.” A book in three chapters, with three... -
Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character by Mario de Andrade
RRP: $18.05$15.66Here at last is an exciting new edition of the Brazilian modernist epic Macunaima: The Hero with No Character, by Mario de Andrade. This landmark 1928 novel follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaima and his brothers as they leave their Amazon... -
Dutch Gringa in Brazil by Mathilde Scholtes 9789083374918
RRP: $19.34$17.43Apologies 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: $19.34$16.13Apologies 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 -
Sphinx: A Neo-Gothic Novel from Brazil by Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto 9781603296236
RRP: $42.51$36.77A work of supernatural fantasy that questions gender divisions.At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body,... -
The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer 9780811237475
RRP: $15.47$14.24In 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... -
Pedro and Marques Take Stock: A Picaresque Novel by José Falero 9781662601231
RRP: $32.25$22.61"[A] vibrant and punchy novel . . . Through Falero’s lovable characters, readers will meditate on violence and respectability within the death-trap of runaway capitalism. Head-on against the grim indignities of an unequal world, Falero’s poetic novel... -
Resurrection by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
RRP: $14.18$12.36Machado 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...