A thriller from a Brazilian writer about a film director in Rio who is trying to make a film of a short story by Isaac Babel. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
This novel, written in the 1950s, provides Amado's view of the cacao industry in Brazil in the days before World War II and its destructive effect on the economy, peasantry, and fragile ecological balance. The novel is set in Ilheus, a provincial port, where Amado focuses on Carlos Zude, a greedy exporter who wants a piece of the action. As the ...
A burlesque smorgasbord of the international high-jinks follows a hapless, 12-fingered, would-be assassin who lurches from Sarajevo to Paris to Hollywood to Chicago to Rio, leaving high-stakes chaos in his wake. Illustrations throughout.
Pedra Canga, a small and isolated community in the Brazilian Pantanal, or wetlands, endures amid poverty, myth, and superstition. Dreaming and suffering, the simple townspeople exist in the mystical reality of their private universe. With insight and humor, the novel tells of the ultimate vindication of the humble folk against a powerful and ...
Roberto DaMatta, one of the foremost Brazilian anthropologists, and his colleague Elena Soarez approach the question of gambling in popular culture in general and its treatment in social anthropology in particular. They focus on the "animal game," a kind of popular gambling entertainment or lottery within Brazil in which locals bet on a list of ...
Like his creator, the narrator of this novel is a psychiatrist who loathes psychiatry, a veteran of the despised 1970s colonial war waged by Portugal against Angola, a survivor of a failed marriage, and a man seeking meaning in an uncaring and venal society. The reader joins Antunes on a journey both real and phantasmagorical as he travels by car ...
In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them. The book's hands-on ...
Born in Brazil, novelist DomA-cio Coutinho immigrated to the United States in 1959. His first novel, Duke, the Dog Priest, comically explores Nova Eboracense, Brazilian New York, with its dazzling mix of priests, brothers, nuns, students, church workers, parishioners, city luminaries, and a dog named Duke who wants to become a priest-making for a ...
In this 1865 Brazilian novel, the romance between an Indian woman and a Portuguese soldier parallels the tie between the Europe nations and their colonies. Remarkably impartial in its political stance, IRACEMA is one of the first works of fiction to explore the ambiguities of colonialism.
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