The narrator of this novel is a rather charming lizard. He lives on Felix Ventura's living-room wall, Felix, the lizard's friend and hero of the story, is a man who sells pasts - if you don't like yours, he can come up with an new one for you, a new past
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Winner of the Machado de Assis PrizeDriving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family’s roadside camp.With sudden shif
The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbid
After walking for days across the harsh Brazilian landscape only to be rejected by his last living relative, Samuel finds his options for survival are dwindling fast - until he comes to the hollow head of a statue, perfect for a boy to crawl into and hide
The second installment in Tavares’s acclaimed “Kingdom” series. In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life a
Based on a true story: A Spanish sea captain rescues four German castaways during a treacherous storm in 1940. He doesn’t know who they are or where they came from, but one of them gives him a mysterious gold-and-diamond emblem before disembarking. Deca
"A Vida no Céu" é um romance distópico, num futuro que se segue ao Grande Desastre, e em que o Mundo deixou de ser onde e como o conhecemos. Encontrando-se o globo terrestre inteiramente coberto por água, e a temperatura, à superfície, intolerável,
O novo romance de José Eduardo Agualusa, A Rainha Ginga, conta a vida fantástica de Dona Ana de Sousa, a Rainha Ginga (1583-1663), cujo título real em quimbundo, "Ngola", deu origem ao nome português para aquela região de África. É a história de u
