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Editora do Brasil
Founded in 1943, Editora do Brasil has a wonderful history of commitment to culture and education. As a solid and experienced publisher, we are increasingly connected to the new times. One of the largest Brazilian companies in the segment, we believe in strengthening education and culture nationally and abroad. With a diverse and award-winning catalog, Editora do Brasil is always seeking to stay current and offer the best material. Our books feature a variety of themes by some of the best authors and designers, some of whom are internationally renowned.
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FictionSeptember 2018Spevník
by Boris Ondreička
Boris Ondreička's magnum opus has been several years in the making. The songbook is the Slovak debut of the writing curator, artist and singer Boris Ondreička, published by BRAK. The large-scale retrospective Songbook contains 61 Songs in nearly 700 pages quasi-phenomenologically encompassing reflections on truth, happiness, taste, freedom, love, art... and poetry itself. The roots of some of the texts go back to the early 1990s, but they have all been reinterpreted in an entirely new form in the last year.
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FictionJune 2017Ruzká klazika
by Daniel Majling
Dostoyevzky, Tolsztoy, or Toorgenef are cheap substitutes of enduring literary value for people who can't afford to read the real, reader-intensive Russian classics. Especially in the remote villages of Gemer and Novohrad, you quite often meet people who have some "Chekhov" on their shelf and think that having read these cheap knock-offs, they are competent to have an insider's discussion of the great themes of Russian classics, such as God, love, immortality, crime, punishment and death. It is then difficult to discuss the great questions of existence with people brought up on such cheap copies of the Russian classics, or - as journalists have recently called them: Russian fiction - because Russian fiction does indeed at first sight resemble Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy or Turgenev in its choice of themes, characters and setting, but its values cease to be relevant after the second reading.
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Graphic novelsFebruary 2023Gemer
by Daniel Majling
The first part of the three-part graphic novel begins dramatically when a young boy falls down an uncovered shaft near Plešivec. This event gradually reveals a whole panopticon of characters, and in a small area we are introduced to, among others, a pathologist whose long-standing imaginary relationship with Natalie Portman has fallen apart; the chief of police in Pleshivec, searching for which child psychologist working in the town is real and which is only pretending to be a psychologist; the director of the local psychiatry with retrograde amnesia; and of course - Jon Bon Jovi. The dice are rolled and the story, full of suspense, absurd twists, and tragicomic dialogue, is ready to begin.
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FictionApril 2024Veľká vzdialenosť
by Marek Hudec, Eduard Klena
Dominik and Tao met by chance, through a dating site on holiday. Although one lives in Bratislava and the other in Stockholm, they don't notice the distance at all. They write thousands of messages to each other, have dozens of video calls, and intricately plan their weekends together. Their relationship comes to a breaking point. Long-distance love is now commonplace thanks to the internet, but it comes with many challenges. The original graphic novel authentically and humorously shows that not only loving gay men have to fight for respect and acceptance, but also two people separated by hundreds of miles. Will the young men manage to find a home together?
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Children's & YAJuly 2023O tme a veľkom človeku
by Michal Hlatký, Nicol Hochholczerová
Any proper urban Darkness engulfs dwellings the moment their inhabitants turn off the lights. What if it doesn't? The apartment on Night Street has been lit three nights in a row. She's in trouble at work, facing punishment, and the Superior of the College of Night Darkness is furious. A certain Constantine is behind it all...
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Children's & YAMay 2020Posledný Permoník
by Tereza Oľhová, Eva Škandíková
An illustrated children's book about the last living permonik, who was left all alone after a massive gold mining operation under Kremnica. He lives in his little room in the shed, his ears hurt, he wanders through the underground passages and sometimes he secretly goes to someone's house and reads the daily newspaper. It is only thanks to eight-year-old Adam that he dares to come out among the people after 500 years. He is surprised to discover that instead of medieval torture chambers, the town has shops, a barber shop and a fitness centre, and he is utterly charmed by contemporary inventions such as street lighting, football or cakes. Maybe it's because of them that he'll start to like people a little.
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FictionApril 2024Zbytočné pohyby
by Tereza Oľhová
In the story, the author draws us into the inner world of actress Lucia and her daily struggle with parental responsibilities, job insecurity and one or two men. With ironic detachment and a keen eye for detail, she observes her life and draws connections between the most ordinary actions and difficult decisions. She sees the crisis as an opportunity to explore human boundaries. But she also finds in it a space for hope and a search for a better version of herself. All this in a world that is often full of unnecessary movements.
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FictionJuly 2023Na kolenách
by Alica Cárska
The author depicts the life of a girl and later a woman who grows up in poverty in an unspecified small Slovak town. A precarious social situation, an unscrupulous mother and cruel classmates undermine her self-confidence, which is why it is a life of self-doubt and self-questioning from the beginning. A growing sense of guilt gradually becomes fuel for blaming everyone around her. She seeks refuge sometimes in confessionals, other times in anonymous hotel rooms. Can Alice shake the feeling that she is not in control of her destiny, that her free will is an illusion?
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FictionMay 2018Zóna
by Daniel Majling
Forget Nordic detective fiction, the grittiest stories are set in Gemera! Or, if you prefer, in the Zone, the mysterious space between Rimavská Sobota and London, where Daniel Majling has set his new comic story. And as we are used to with the author of Rudo and Ruzka klazika, the search for a mysteriously lost friend will go hand in hand with the search for truth, the meaning of life and man's place in the universe...
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FictionMarch 2019RUDO
by Daniel Majling
Rudo is a comic book character strikingly reminiscent of writer and playwright Daniel Majling. It is published in Slovak for the first time in a complete edition. The 15 comic short stories full of irony and self-irony, cynicism, literary and social allusions are full of quality, sometimes even black humour.Rudo does not shy away from big philosophical questions, as evidenced by chapter titles such as: On the Meaning of Life, The Evolutionary Advantage, The Truth About Jesus Christ, The Inconvenience at Four: Death. But he answers basic questions about the (im)meaning of life, the universe, and the universe in general with genuine ease.
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Children's & YANovember 2024OFFroad
by Zuzana Lišková, Viliam Slaminka
When two national park rangers Gerhard and Frenky discover a rusty old car in the woods, they have no idea how much it will change their lives. The children's illustrated book takes a wild ride through the beautiful countryside, in a near-impossible-to-fix tandem car, but most importantly in a search for camaraderie and understanding. Join them on an awesome OFFroad ride!
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Children's & YAMay 2020Pes Moko a jeho oko
by Mirka Ábelová, Ivana Šáteková
Moko the dog only has one eye. Because everyone laughs at him, he lives far away from people and animals. One day he says to himself that he is tired of being alone. He packs a map, a compass, a blanket and some pellets and sets off on an adventurous journey to find his new eye. He wanders to an amusement park where he meets little Vili. He helps him search for the new eye and together they meet various "strange" creatures. These teach them that we don't have to be afraid of what is different from us. That goodness and beauty come from somewhere else. And that there are more important things than how we look.
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Children's & YAKrutá Marta
by Marek Vadas, Daniela Olejníková
Do you like to play with animals? Admit it, who among you has pulled a cat's tail? Our heroine is very fond of such things, that's why the animals at her grandmother's house called her Cruel Martha. The book with beautiful illustrations by Daniela Olejnikova takes you to Grandma's house, where the yard is full of animals. They have one big surprise in store for Marta.
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Children's & YASpooks
by Tereza Oľhová, Eva Škandíková
Every house has its boogeymen. Ours too. You can find them everywhere. On the balcony, in the washing machine, under the elevator, and right behind you. What they're doing there, you'll find out in a picture book meant for all kids who can laugh and still haven't stopped being afraid. Foreign Rights: books@owlagency.org
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Children's & YALui - The Story About Searching
by Nikola Aronová
The book tells the story of Lui, who leads a solitary life. One day, the wind brings a leaf from a tree to his window. However, this is no ordinary leaf; this Leaf starts speaking to Lui and urging him to journey into the world. Lui traverses through wild country and listens to the voices of nature. Foreign Rights: books@owlagency.org
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Children's & YAThe Last Gift of Sound
by Nikola Aronová
Once upon a time, in the distant past, when the Earth did not yet exist, there was Sound and Noise. They were born together with the first stars and galaxies. The Final Gift of Sound is a story about the need to listen to the silence around us and within us, carrying a profound and timely message. Foreign Rights: books@owlagency.org
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Children's & YAThe Christmas NightMare from Paris
by Miroslava Grajciarová, Eva Mária Ondová
Anna is a 5-year-old Slovak girl spending Christmas in Paris. On Christmas Day, a witch man blows snowflakes into her hair, which she can neither shake off. The magic of the festive day, Parisian monuments and the cultural dialogues of Slovak and French Christmas are multiplied by an adventure. Foreign Rights: books@owlagency.org
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2022The City
An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies
by Uwe Prell
This book presents the current state of urban research across various disciplines. The author offers insights into the views of those key disciplines that deal with urbanism, such as sociology, geography, spatial and urban planning, history, philosophy, and political science. He also takes language philosophy into account and shows the different meanings of concepts related to cities in a dozen word languages. An overview of central approaches and theories as well as of their practical application enables readers to see a familiar topic in a new light.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2015Het jaar dat de muur viel
De val van het communisme in het Oostblok
by Jule Hinrichs
November 2014 saw the quarter-century anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most poignant events in the past century. The inhabitants of Berlin broke the graffiti-covered concrete down with hammers or pickaxes and climbed over the wall. The historic milestone was followed on televisions around the world. After forty years of separation between communism and capitalism, the Iron Curtain opened on November 9th 1989. Which economic and political developments preceded this event? The arrival of Gorbachev in 1985 ushered in the Glasnost period. With this, hope for more liberty of action in Eastern Europe grew in satellite states such as Poland and Hungary. In 1989, the Communists in Hungary decided to hold free elections. In the summer of that year, the same happened in Poland. That same summer, the Hungarians began to remove the barbed wire at the Hungarian-Austrian border. Through this gap, East Germans fled en masse from Hungarian campsites to the West. It was the prelude to the dramatic decision of the GDP to open the border on November 9th 1989.
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October 2016CITIES - Brennpunkte der Menschheit
by Markus Eisl, Gerald Mansberger, Peter Matzanetz, Paul Schreilechner,
The satellite image book CITIES - Brennpunkte der Menschheit shows the fascinating variety of cities from all over the world. Repeatedly the selection of spectacular high resolution images taken by state-of-the-art satellites surprises with unexpected perspectives. Cities in extreme situations, ghost towns planned for millions of people, fascinating city layouts are presented in an appealing sequence. Systematic, planned structures and chaotically grown patterns are shown in the colors of all continents. The dynamics of rise and fall is visible in the images as well as the current, increasingly rapid development of megacities.
