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Nossa vingança é o amor: Antologia poética 1971-2024
Cristina Peri Rossi · 2025
Orbital
Samantha Harvey · 2023
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 • NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours "Ravishingly beautiful." — Joshua Ferris, New York Times A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. Profound and contemplative, Orbital is a moving elegy to our environment and planet.
Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas
_ · 2014
Nova edição do clássico de Machado de Assis com o apuro editorial da coleção Penguin-Companhia<br/>Em 1881, Machado de Assis lançou aquele que seria um divisor de águas não só em sua obra, mas na literatura brasileira: Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas. Ao mesmo tempo em que marca a fase mais madura do autor, o livro é considerado a transição do romantismo para o realismo. Num primeiro momento, a prosa fragmentária e livre de Memórias póstumas, misturando elegância e abuso, refinamento e humor negro, causou estranheza, inclusive entre a crítica. Com o tempo, no entanto, o defunto autor que dedica sua obra ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes de seu cadáver tornou-se um dos personagens mais populares da nossa literatura. Sua história, uma celebração do nada que foi sua vida, foi transformada em filmes, peças e HQs, e teve incontáveis edições no Brasil e no mundo, conquistando admiradores que vão de Susan Sontag a Woody Allen. Esta edição reproduz o prólogo do próprio autor à terceira edição do livro, em que ele responde às dúvidas dos primeiros leitores. Traz ainda prefácio e notas de Marta de Senna, cocriadora e editora da revista eletrônica Machado de Assis em Linha, e Marcelo Diego, pesquisador da obra de Machado na Universidade Princeton.
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Não Sei Se é Bom, Mas é Teu
Ribeiro, Maria · 2025
Retratos de jazz (Ensayos) / Portraits in Jazz (Essays) (Spanish Edition)
Haruki Murakami · 2025
El Libro de Los Amores Ridiculos (Spanish Edition)
Milan Kundera · 1992
Tal vez por haber sido escritas en el periodo (entre 1959, y 1968) mas feliz de la vida de Milan Kundera, segun sus propias palabras, estas narraciones son las mas alegres, las mas seriamente desvergonzadas y las mas reflexivamente divertidas de su obra. La farandula de personajes hedonistas que desfila aqui ante nosotros en busca de los juegos multiples y contradictorios de la amistad, el amor y el sexo no puede sino incitar a la risa, atrapados como estan en el mundo loco de severidad, hermetismo e inquisicion que les rodea. Una risa autentica, traviesa ; un humor sabio, sagaz y gozador, al que ya nos tiene acostumbrados el autor de La insoportable levedad del ser.
Silencio: El poder de la quietud en un mundo ruidoso
Thich Nhat Hanh · 2024
El amor en los tiempos del Cólera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1985
De joacute;venes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un meacute;dico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino estaacute; anonadado, pero es un romaacute;ntico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequentilde;os romances, su corazoacute;n todaviacute;a pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intencioacute;n. A los cincuenta antilde;os, nueve meses y cuatro diacute;as de haberle profesado amor a Fermina, lo haraacute; una vez maacute;s.<br/><br/>pCon sagacidad humoriacute;stica y depurado estilo, Garciacute;a Maacute;rquez traza la historia excepcional de un amor que no ha sido correspondido por medio siglo. Aunque nunca parece estar propiamente contenido, el amor fluye a traveacute;s de la novela de mil maneras: alegre, melancoacute;lico, enriquecedor, siempre sorprendente.
All Fours: A Novel
Miranda July · 2024
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life<br/><br/>“A frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect….the bravery of All Fours is nothing short of riveting.”—Vogue<br/><br/>“A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life…Deeply funny and achingly true.” —LA Times<br/><br/>“All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.” —The Cut<br/><br/>“July’s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I’ve ever read.” —New York Magazine<br/><br/>A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.<br/><br/>Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan · 1986
“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York Times<br/><br/>Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries.<br/><br/>“How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? . . . He talks about all kinds of things: the why of the pain of human childbirth . . . the reason for sleeping and dreaming . . . chimpanzees taught to communicate in deaf and dumb language . . . the definition of death . . . cloning . . . computers . . . intelligent life on other planets. . . . Fascinating . . . delightful.”—The Boston Globe<br/><br/>“In some lost Eden where dragons ruled, the foundations of our intelligence were laid. . . . Carl Sagan takes us on a guided tour of that lost land. . . . Fascinating . . . entertaining . . . masterful.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sete Anos (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Fernanda Torres · 2014
Em 2010, Fernanda iniciou colaboracao com o caderno Poder da Folha de S.Paulo. Sua missao era escrever sobre as eleicoes para a presidencia. Muitos dos textos sobre politica incluidos em Sete anos tiveram origem nesse periodo. Passadas as eleicoes, Fernanda passou a manter uma coluna mensal no caderno de cultura do mesmo jornal. Mas ha um texto inedito. E o pungente Despedida, que trata da morte de seu pai. Por pudor, Fernanda preferira nao publica-lo a epoca, mas agora decidiu compartilhar a experiencia dolorosa com seus leitores. As cronicas aqui reunidas foram escritas ao longo de sete anos e contam a historia do meu noviciado, diz a autora na apresentacao do livro. Desenvolver uma ideia dentro de um espaco determinado de linhas, falar de temas de interesse comum sem abrir mao do tom pessoal e dar valor a concisao sao algumas licoes que tomei do jornalismo.Um ator, mesmo que a sos, em cena, carece de um aparato custoso para exercer seu oficio. Nao e o que ocorre com o escritor, cujos limites sao impostos apenas por sua capacidade de imaginar. Poder escrever que vinte elefantes entraram em um quarto e uma libertacao para alguem acostumado a rotina teatral, diz Fernanda. As letras tem me feito grande companhia.Da plateia, os leitores agradecem.
Mythos
Stephen Fry · 2018
Nessuno è capace di passione, rabbia, inganno e seduzione con tanta audacia e fantasia come le divinità dell'antica Grecia. Le loro affascinanti vicende, tramandate attraverso i millenni, sono entrate a far parte della cultura del mondo occidentale, e hanno ispirato moltissimi scrittori e artisti di tutte le epoche, da Shakespeare a Michelangelo, da James Joyce a Walt Disney. In queste pagine le storie degli dei, dalla nascita dell'Universo alla creazione del genere umano, rivivono in un racconto vivace e coinvolgente, intessuto della grandezza e della miseria divine che si rispecchiano nelle nostre. Tra nascite e morti, amori e ingiustizie, trionfi e tragedie, come in un film, assisteremo alla nascita di Atena dalla testa di Zeus, alla ricerca della figlia di Demetra nell'oscuro regno di Ade, al terribile destino di Prometeo dopo il tradimento ai danni di Zeus, all'attimo in cui Pandora prende la decisione di aprire il suo vaso ... Un racconto nuovo di storie antiche che pensavamo di conoscere, riscritte per la nostra epoca tragica, comica e fatale da Stephen Fry, un'icona vivente, definito come 'un moderno Oscar Wilde' per il suo tagliente umorismo e 'un uomo rinascimentale' per la sua incredibile poliedricità. Un libro che coglie tutta la ricchezza e la profondità dei miti e li trasforma, con sguardo lucido e ironico, in abili narratori del nostro presente e della nostra umanità.
The Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
La clase de griego
Han Kang · 2023
"En Seúl, una mujer asiste a clases de griego antiguo. Su profesor le pide que lea en voz alta pero ella permanece en silencio; ha perdido la capacidad del lenguaje, así como a su madre y la custodia de un hijo de ocho años. Su única esperanza de recuperar el habla es mediante el aprendizaje de una lengua muerta. El profesor, que acaba de regresar a Corea después de pasar media vida en Alemania, se encuentra dividido entre dos culturas y dos lenguas. También el afronta perdidas: su vista empeora irreversiblemente a cada día que pasa, y convive con el miedo de saber que, cuando llegue la ceguera total, perderá toda autonomía. Con una belleza inusitada, las voces íntimas de estos dos protagonistas se intercalan y se cruzan en un momento de desesperación. ¿Será posible que encuentren en el otro el modo de salvarse, que la oscuridad dé paso a la luz y el silencio a la palabra? La aclamada autora de La vegetariana indaga en la pérdida, la violencia y la frágil relación de nuestros sentidos con el mundo para brindarnos una carta de amor a la filosofía, la literatura y el lenguaje, pero, sobre todo, a la esencia de la conexión humana y de lo que significa sentirse vivo."--Descripción del editor.
To Read
Sunday's Children A Novel
Ingmar Bergman · 1994
Private Confessions
Ingmar Bergman · 1997
The Best Intentions
Ingmar Bergman
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall · 2009
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 2021
All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami • 2022
FINALIST for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction A BEST BOOK OF 2022 Oprah Daily·TIME Magazine·Washington Post·Publishers Weekly·Lit Hub Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyuko stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it. As the long overdue change occurs, however, painful episodes from Fuyuko’s past surface and her behavior slips further and further beyond the pale. All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and engaging; it will make readers laugh, and it will make them cry, but it will also remind them, as only the best books do, that sometimes the pain is worth it. “In the skilled hands of Bett and Boyd, Kawakami’s prose is instantly recognizable—immediate, incisive, and unfailingly honest.”—Katie Kitamura, Entertainment Weekly (A Most Anticipated Book of 2022)
Every Man for Himself and God against All
Werner Herzog · 2023
The long-awaited memoir by the legendary filmmaker and celebrated author. Told in Werner Herzog's inimitable voice, this is the story of his epic artistic career, as inventive and daring as anything he has done before.<br/><br/>Hauling a steamship over a mountain in the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - Werner Herzog has always been intrigued by extremes of human experience. Here, he illuminates the influences and ideas that have driven his creativity and shaped his unique worldview.<br/><br/>Herzog's life matches the drama of his famous films: the boy growing up in poverty in a small village in the Alps after the Second World War; the teenager travelling the world in search of adventure that almost cost him his life; the director trying to calm his leading actor Klaus Kinski in the Amazonian jungle. And along the way, Herzog tells of ordinary people with extraordinary stories: rural labourers, circus acrobats, child soldiers.<br/><br/>"Every Man for Himself and God Against All" is at once a personal record of one of the great self-invented lives of our time, and a masterpiece that will enthral fans old and new. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
