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Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first... (learn more about this book)
A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Capitu, who overcome their parents' reluctance to marry. But Bento jealously suspects that their son is not his. But beyond this straightforward plot, Machado plays with the reader's expectations... (learn more about this book)
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situationa woman at home, aloneinto an amphitheater... (learn more about this book)
Original Portuguese Title: "Os Lusíadas"
1998 is the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to... (learn more about this book)
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... (learn more about this book)
Quixotic madmen are the protagonists of these imaginative stories, which probe the horror of a nothingness beyond death.
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With its frank sexuality and searing critique of the Church, La Regenta scandalized contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885. Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life... (learn more about this book)
Consider the Lilies of the Field is about Eugenio Fontes, a young doctor, son of a poor, but hard working tailor that lives to give his sons the best they could have. Since college, Eugenio is ashamed, unhappy and almost disgusted by the way his family live. He graduates as a doctor, and meets... (learn more about this book)
In 1850 Rio de Janeiro, Estacio tries to uncover the mysterious past of Helena, his presumed half sister, who has been brought to the family home and with whom he falls in love.
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Text: English, Portugese (translation)
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