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      • Trusted Partner
        Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's/YA)
        October 2020

        Enciclopedia de anatomía fantástica

        by Pedro Mañas, Mariana Alcántara

        For centuries, illustrious doctors have tried to find the ultimate weapon against disease: from hot stew to injections, trying even injections of hot stew. As tasty as they are useless. But not everything is lost. In this fantastic and incredible encyclopedia, if you read carefully, you will be able to find cures and remedies against new and unsuspected diseases. We prescribe you to read it carefully, preferably with a scarf on and with a bowl of stew broth. Just in case, get a scarf for the chicken as well, before you cook it.

      • The Arts
        October 2020

        descantes

        by José F. Colaço Guerreiro

        Considered by Unesco as World Heritage, the art of Cante is one of the most ancient and pure singing art form in Portugal. Along with this marvellous tradition, there are a few people that still keep the art of playing the Viola Campaniça, an acoustic guitar invented centuries ago in the region of Alentejo.The author, José Francisco Colaço, rescued this lost tradition from oblivion researching for more than twenty years, tracking the guardians of this old knowledge and bringing them back to the spotlight through audio records, radio programmes and, of course, writing.

      • Fiction
        April 2019

        nothing else to append... book 3

        by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

        A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2017-2019) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

      • Fiction
        April 2017

        nothing else to append... book 2

        by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

        A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2015-2017) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        Poetry Also Shouts

        by José Martins Gago, Sofia Paulino

      • Poetry by individual poets
        May 2018

        Crossing Of The Nimble Time

        by Luís Filipe Marcão

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        The Knight Of Nobody's Land

        by Sinval Medina

        With a combination of documental record and pure fiction, Brazilian Sinval Medina brings us in this great work an historical figure that had his life on the wire in Brazil.Cristóvão Pereira de Abreu, the protagonist, was born in Portugal in 1678, and travelled to Brazil in an early age. Bonded with family ties to the economical elite of Rio de Janeiro, he becomes a man of great local deals. The true life of Cristóvão is novelized here in this stunning journey through the south of Brazil, since he was the man responsible for the discovering of the new land rails to the territories of the South.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        My House Is Not My House Anymore

        by Eva Guimarães

        What happens when a woman is deprived of her belongings? She left her land for love. Far away, she realizes that all she had dreamed with becomes slowly into a nightmare. Meanwhile, she is unbelievably forced to self-isolation in her own house. Baruch, the dog, was her only and loyal friend. What if she was deprived even from that friend? Fear, harassment, violence.A true story disguised as pure literature that tells the story of a woman that never lost her dignity, despite all the abuse and humiliation. She never stopped fighting for her freedom.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Assesta's Short Stories - Water

        by Assesta

        In this second volume of short stories by the authors of Assesta (Writers Association of Alentejo), water was the chosen theme to bring to life the imagination of writers and illustrators of Assesta.Short stories or poetic prose wanderings, the reader will find everything in these small texts followed by marvellous illustrations, all made in Alentejo.

      • Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2020

        Literary Handout - Sunset

        by Francisco Inácio

      • Fiction
        July 2018

        Risk Commitment

        by Maria Ana de Carvalho Ameixa

        Joana, a paediatrician by heart working in the Santa Maria Hospital, is able to read the mind of other people, sort of speak. She’s also waiting for a meeting with love. An unusual incident will take her right to the arms of her loved one, but Joana never imagined that this Israelite would become so deeply mysterious. The mind of that man holds undecipherable thoughts. Is he a terrorist? A member of a radical secret organization? Ho will she act when she finds out the truth?A magnificent plot that will take the main character to Lisbon, Lagos, Jerusalem and Telavive, an unflinching narrative that will make the reader wonder about our goals in life.

      • Literature & Literary Studies

        El arte de la cháchara - La poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn

        La poética de lo abigarrado en las novelas de Enrique Lihn

        by Daniel Rojas Pachas

        La trilogía sobre la retórica del poder, que Enrique Lihn nos ha legado, fue creada bajo el signo del bufón y la podemos entender como literatura plural y abigarrada. Antonio Cornejo Polar señala en torno a estos dos conceptos: "corresponde a una especie de supradiscurso multiétnico que acumula, sin sintetizarlas, sus hondas y extensas contradicciones".  En ese tenor, Enrique Lihn señala en uno de sus versos, dedicados al ocio increíble del que somos capaces: “el estilo que por lo cierto no es el hombre / sino la suma de sus incertidumbres”.  En busca de la contradicción inherente, el autor chileno crea realidades ficcionales, que se apartan de lo documental y privilegia generar efectos de enmascaramiento y una comunicación que se da en términos de una combinación de estados neuróticos y paranoides. Habla que remite a un marco de censura y vigilancia, al punto de extremar el locus horridus propiciado por un poder corrupto e irrefrenable. Se trata del reino en que prevalece la palabra vacía e impotente que surge de la censura. Daniel Rojas Pachas nos entrega en este ensayo, una visión profunda y crítica de la narrativa, de uno de los escritores chilenos más importantes del siglo XX.

      • October 2013

        El silencio de los pájaros

        by Horacio Cavallo / Gonzalo Delgado

        Para salvar su vida, un hombre decide salvar la de los demás.Una solitaria mujer recibe las esperanzadoras cartas de un admirador secreto.Padre e hijo viajan al pasado con una caja de cenizas en las manos.Un músico ciego recorre a tientas un pequeño pueblo del interior.Un poeta ignoto le entrega el más valioso regalo al hombre que lo iluminó con sus palabras.Un grupo de niños planean un mágico rescate.Un abuelo, su nieto y un perro ven lo que el río devuelve a los hombres, mientras los pájaros callan. En los siete cuentos de este libro, Horacio Cavallo construye un mundo de particular sensibilidad gracias a la calidad sugestiva de su prosa. Las vidas de los personajes que habitan ese mundo son antiguas, vidas que han llegado a un punto en el que un solo gesto de bondad, de sencilla ternura, puede devolverles una parte de su fuerza original. Mucho tiempo después de que el lector haya abandonado estas páginas, esos personajes continuarán en su memoria, buscando nuevas oportunidades de redención, y, quizá, encontrándolas. Un nuevo relato se añade a los siete que conformaban la primera edición de este volumen. Se trata de «El sabor de la nieve», originalmente publicado en el libro colectivo Exposición múltiple (Alter Ediciones, 2015), un texto que, además de ser una prodigiosa muestra de técnica narrativa, alcanza una gran hondura emotiva y se ubica entre las mejores piezas breves del autor. El nuevo conjunto amplía así los márgenes de su universo simbólico y ofrece nuevas posibilidades de diálogos cruzados. Cabe señalar que luego de obtener el Premio Nacional de Narrativa Édita del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura en 2015, varios de los relatos de este libro han formado parte de antologías en diversas lenguas.

      • Biography: historical, political & military
        March 2020

        Mujeres de novela

        Quince vidas extraordinarias del siglo XX

        by Echavarren Roselló, Sonsoles

        ¿Crees que tu madre, tu abuela o tu vecina no podrían protagonizar una novela? Pues estás equivocado. A nuestro alrededor hay muchas mujeres extraordinarias que, aunque no hayan ganado un Premio Nobel de Medicina, como Marie Curie, ni escrito un diccionario mientras criaban a sus hijos, como María Moliner, son igualmente excepcionales. Haz la prueba. Observa a tu familia, a las de tus amigos, a esa camarera que te atiende detrás de la barra de un bar o a la mujer, fuerte y decidida que ha cuidado de tus hijos o de tus padres, para que tú puedas seguir tu camino profesional en el hospital, el colegio, la oficina o la fábrica. Tienes entre manos un libro muy especial, casi tanto como estas quince vidas que son un tratado de historia contemporánea. Y que nos muestran cómo ha sido la otra historia, no la de las guerras y los tratados, sino la del día a día, los amores, los hijos, las enfermedades y las muertes. Por estas páginas transitan modistas que cosieron para la burguesía en la España de la posguerra, emigran-tes intrépidas que no dudaron en subirse a un barco o un avión para encontrar el amor en Londres o en Melbourne (Australia) o alemanas que transitaron por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y desafiaron a los soldados de la RDA en esas fron-teras de alambradas. A todas las conozco. Algunas forman parte de mi familia de mi vida, que viene a ser lo mismo. A otras no tuve la fortuna de conocerlas porque ya murieron. Pero sus hijos o nietos se han prestado a compartir su historia conmigo. ¿Aún sigues creyendo que tu madre, tu abuela o tu vecina no merecerían protagonizar una historia de novela de las de antes?

      • Children's & YA
        August 2017

        Planet Shift and the Shifters

        by Rita Vilela, Sofia Paulino

        Did you know? There is an unknown planet in our Solar System called Planet Shift! And the inhabitants of that planet are called Shifters! Can you imagine if they are that different from us? What if the Shifters day-to-day habits were very similar to ours? It seems possible, alright, but things are not going well in Planet Shift, because when the Shifters get really angry, something unusual happens… unusual as we have never seen in our planet…

      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        The Legend of the Carrion crow’s Boy

        by Julieta Aurora Santos

        The story is told by an oneiric character, Maresia, a central figure that holds an island on the waistline of her long, wide skirt. She is the embodiment of the landscape, an inspiration and the starting point for this dramatic creation. As a witness of all the events, it is the spirit of the sea that tells us the adventures of the boy and his friend, the Carrion crow, on Pessegueiro’s Island. A story about the desire for freedom and peace in a world whose existence is at stake. The fort’s ruins and the island’s real threat of submersion appear as symbolic elements of a memory that is intended to be retrieved and preserved by sharing it with the new generations.The narrative, aided in its interpretation by puppets, is defined through a language of great visuality, oneiric ambiance and poetry, capable of being understood by all audiences.As Teatro do Mar’s director, Julieta Aurora Santos, by pursuing her project of retrieving elements of Sines’ cultural identity, and by developing a dramaturgy inspired in the history, myths and traditional tales of this region, has based herself on a legend from parish of Porto Covo, the Pessegueiro Island, to be more specific – The legend of the Carrion crow’s boy – to create her own show, therefore recovering part of the immaterial legacy of the district for the new generations, in several performances all over the country, and recently, in Brazil

      • Children's & YA
        January 2019

        The Three Stones

        by António Ramalho, Catarina Bico

        This is the story of a child that runs after destiny itself. An endless search for something wonderful and miraculous. In his quest, he will find many temptations, and who knows if will resist them. In the end, the little boy will learn the most important secret… he will learn that the world is only good-hearted if you wear a smile on your face.

      • Fiction
        August 2020

        I Crave For Euthanasia

        by José Martins Gago

        A piercing plot about the choice of life and death. I Crave for Euthanasia tells the story of a man who sees himself struggling with a terminal disease and wishes to take control of his own faith, with the help of his wife. Will she convince the governmental and ecclesiastical institutions to accept the end of her husband suffering and of thousands of other people around the world? Or will the Vatican choose to keep their eyes closed to the petitions of their faithful? In this in-depth novel, José Martins Gago raises questions that leads us to the limits of our own existence, and to debate in our own minds one of the most contemporary controversies of mankind, whilst takes the reader in a journey around the world, to the most exotic and remote places.

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