About Brasil

A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violencetorn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it...

From prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa comes a deeply reported and beautifully written account of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro as it struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games.Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twen...

First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall raceconsciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North A...

Nova edição de As três Marias com prefácio de Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda e fortuna crítica com textos de Mário de Andrade e Fran Martins. Publicada originalmente em 1939, a obra conta a história de três amigas inseparáveis, da infância em um colégio de freiras à vida Adult,a. Neste romance de formação, Rachel de Queiroz retrata o processo de ajusta...

Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, ?the good son,? is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in L...

The two daughters of Afonso Olímpio and Otacília raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in teeming Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s form the counterpoint and central theme linking four generations: the pliant, troubled Clarice and the lovely, strongwilled Maria Inês. As other voices join in?those of the men they have married and the ones they...

In this deadlyfunny debut novel by renowned Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, five macho friends in Rio?s Copacabana reflect on their hedonistic glory days?now supplanted by the indignities of aging?in what turn out to be their final moments.With uncanny insight into the less virtuous corners of the male psyche, Fernanda Torres brings us five fri...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, About, Brasil lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a hation of almost unimaginable distance between its wealthy and its poor, a place of extraordinary leve...

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscapeâ??from bre...

?Brazil is empty on a Sunday afternoon, rightLook sambão here is the country of football.??Milton NascimentoNo nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. Futebol Nation is the story of Brazil told through its overriding national obsession. For over a century, Brazil?s people, politicians, and poets have found in soccer the ...

Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and largerthanlife father. When Ciccio finds, among the many of his father?s books that line the walls of their house, a troubling letter dated ?December 21, 1931. Berlin?, his existential cr...

From one of Granta?s Best Young Brazilian Novelists comes a startling and powerful story about returning to one?s origins in order to move forward.In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysterious illness, which is eroding her body and mind, decides to accept a challenge from her grandfather: to take the key to the house where he grew up ? in ...

A Rio de Janeiro ThrillerIn a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his head, his wallet and briefcase missing. Inspector Espinosa is called in to investigate the apparent robbery and murder, but the worldweary Espinosa knows that things are not always as they see...

A professor prepares to retire?Gustavo is set to move from Sao Paulo to the countryside, but it isn?t the urban violence he?s fleeing: what he fears most is the violence of his memory. But as he sorts out his papers, the ghosts arrive in full force. He was arrested in 1970 with his brotherinlaw Armando: both were vicariously tortured. He was even...

Best of 2016 NPRWinner of the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for FictionNew York Times Editors' Choice 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover selection"An elegant pageturner....Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet." New York Times Book ReviewFor fans of Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24Hour Bookstore and Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bern...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaThey call themselves ?Captains of the Sands,? a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteenyearold ?Bullet,? the band?including a crafty liar named ?Legl...

The powerful firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. LevineTranslated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, About, Brasil lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Dom Casmurro is an unchanged, highquality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers a...

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenthcentury Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in it...

Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendona discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot...No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in townleast of all...

An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literatureWritten by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and t...

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector?s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life?s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, CocaCola, and her rat of a bo...