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Founded in 2008, Grua publishes high quality fiction and nonfiction, both Brazilian and foreign.
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De Gruyter
The independent academic publisher De Gruyter can look back at a company history of over 260 years. Today, the De Gruyter group publishes over 1,300 new titles each year in the humanities, social sciences, STM and law, more than 700 subscription based or Open Access journals, and a variety of digital products. The company is headquartered in Berlin, with offices in Basel, Beijing, Boston and Munich. For license requests please contact: rights@degruyter.com
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May 2012A superfícia da sombra
by Tailor Diniz
A thriller set on the border between Brazil and Uruguay. Making it into a film by director Paulo Nascimento.Publhished also in Bulgaria.Antônio arrives from the city of Porto Alegre, after a night driving through the pampas. The landscape merges with the memories of her young friend, Adele. It is Blanca Lucía, Adele's daughter, who welcomes him with the news of her mother's death. He came for a chat, but he came for a funeral. The boundaries between light and shadow, between Portuguese and Spanish, between narrators who alternate, between doubts and certainties, are not concrete. It's on this frontier that Antônio thinks about balancing himself, in a plot that happens by default and that he stars without realizing it.
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November 2017Petrolina
by Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães
PETROLINA - Synopsis Zeca lives a tangle of routes, trips and accidents. With a background in classical guitar, which he switched when he was a teenager to a rock band, Zeca began to dedicate himself to composing soundtracks for cinema when his eldest daughter, Carmen, was born. He goes on a trip from São Paulo to Petrolina (2.178.6 kilometers) in his Caranga (the way he named his car) with Carmen, now 21, with Pedro, 5, his youngest son from his second marriage, and with Mr. Oscar, his second wife's uncle's grandfather. Mr. Oscar is a retired classical guitar teacher who has made a career at an American conservatory and wants to go to Petrolina to find Sebastião who, 50 years earlier, in the same Petrolina, in that dry hinterland northeastern, he heard playing in an audition and was impressed. Instead of accepting the huge talent of the boy, he dismissed it. Sebastião, then, became Tião Cruz do Acordem, a famous accordion player. The journey is made of many searches, of many stories. In a world dominated by technological impersonality and an affective coexistence restricted to satiation and self-saturation, Zeca's accidental trip to Petrolina, with his sun and daughter, triggers many questions and discovers. ? In this road novel, changes in the world, and in relationships, come through music. Especially music played on guitars.
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November 2015Super-homem, Não-homem, Carol e Os Invisíveis
by Carlos Eduardo de Magalhães
Super-man, Non-man, Carol and The Invisibles - Novel - Marcos is an architect who, as a student, used to write phrases on the walls of his room such as A man must carry his own suitcase and make his own bed. He lives in São Paulo, in the same building as another Marcos, who is a famous actor. They also have Carol's presence in common. Psychologist, she is married to Marcos architect and is the best friend of Marcos actor, with whom she shared an intense adolescence. Early in the evening, the two Marcos confide to a tired Carol about discoveries they had made. One tells her that he has superpowers, is a superman, sure that he started to crystallize after he threw his arm towards a toothbrush holder and saw him fall, without however touching him. The husband, discouraged, defines himself as a non-man, not yet very clear about what that means. In parallel, five excellent high school students who live in poor neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro steal copper wires underground in the city. They call themselves the Invisibles and slide on their skateboards, slang, anger and dreams through the city streets. Such disparate everyday experiences lived in metropolises. The reality and virtual reality of a video game with its impossible to defeat avatar. The memory of events in distant India, which are not known whether invented or real, but lived in any way. The airports and hotel rooms without identity that are the same in all parts of the planet. With contemporary elements, which define and are defined by this complex, contradictory, powerful and fragile man of the century XXI, the book covers three days that will mark the life of each character. Their ideas of being in this world full of walls and phrases and toothbrush holders will be profoundly modified.
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August 2014Um palhaço na boca do vulcão
by Nando Bolognesi
Um Palhaço na Boca do Vulcão (A Clown at the Volcano´s Edge) is an autobiographical account from a Brazilian artist – a clown – adapting himself to the shortcomings imposed by multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease. From the first dismantling diagnosis at the age of 22 to a hilarious theatre show, three decades later, the author reframes his experience struggling against (and living with) sclerosis. Nando Bolognesi´s narrative mixes drama and humor on an original and entertaining way, taking on from early childhood´s memories, as a teenager who wanted to travel the World, up to a well succeeded career as a clown. The book casts a fascinating and mocking look at the fragility of our inescapably perishable condition – and invites the reader to regret but also laugh from it.
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October 2010Barbudos, sujos e fatigados
Soldados brasileiros na Segunda Guerra Mundial
by Cesar Campiani Maximiano
The most important Brazilian book about the Brazilian Army in 2nd World War. The author conducted hundreds of interviews with former combatants – several excerpts from these interviews are transcribed in the book –, he analyzed letters and diaries, visited the theater of operations in northern Italy, and carried out extensive research in the Brazilian, British and American military archives. The close contact with the veterans also allowed access to photographic material that had never been used before (some photos are present in the book).
