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2011
2012
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INTERNATIONAL CO-AGENTS
PORTUGAL, FRANCE AND SPANISH LANGUAGE
Anne Marie Vallat
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ENGLISH
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ALL OTHER LANGUAGES
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Adriana
Falcão
Arthur Dapieve
The Machine /
A Máquina
Adriana’s first novel, The Machine,
won both readers and reviewers
with the fable of a girl who dreams
of becoming an actress and seeing
the world, and of her beloved
who, afraid of losing her, promises
to travel in time to bring her the
world she craves. Besides a stage
adaptation, the book was adapted
into a successful film directed by
João Falcão and awarded a prize
at Rio Film Festival.
Beatriz Bracher
Black Music
Antonio
Michael Philips is in his way to be a
seven-footer, when he is kidnapped
by a gang of Rio de Janeiro’s drug
dealers. Seeing at stake his dreams
of playing basketball and studying
trumpet at the same university
attended by his idol Michael Jordan,
his passion for jazz begins to
captivate both the chief dealer, a 17
years old white boy who dreams of
becoming a gansta rap star, and the
captivity’s cooker, a 16 years old
mulatto girl who loves to dance at one
of Rio’s famous bailes funk.
Benjamim is about to become a father,
and discovers a family secret. He then
decides to find out how everything
happened from the ones involved.
Three of them – his grandmother,
Isabel; Haroldo, his grandfather’s
friend; and Raul, his parents’ friend
– will tell him their versions of the
facts, and by gathering these pieces
of memory, Benjamim will solve the
puzzle of the history of his family.
In this polyphonic narrative, Beatriz
articulates general and private,
individual and historical, building
characters that are simultaneously
unique and identifiable in their social
context. Both protagonist and reader
are moved listeners to the story.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL);
FRANCE (ASPHALTE)
Cintia
Moscovich
Dodô Azevedo
Claudia
Tajes
Why Am I Fat, Mommy?/ Vengeful / Por isso eu
Por que sou gorda,
sou vingativa
mamãe?
A writer puts on forty-eight and a
half pounds in only four years. How
could she have completely lost
control of her own body and never
even realize it? Could the roots of
the problem lie in her past, in the
family history, in all the love - and
hate - shared by children and their
parents? These are the questions
that guide journalist Cíntia
Moscovich’s highly praised novel.
As the narrator searches for the
reasons why she put on so much
weight so quickly, she embarks on
a journey through memory focused
on her Jewish family of European
immigrants, and especially on
her strained relationship with her
mother. At the end of this very
personal and often painful journey,
not only does she find her own
lost body, but also the strength to
become a full-fledged writer.
On The Road Again /
Fé na estrada
Fé na Estrada tells the story of Eduardo
and Mariana, alter egos of writer
Dodô Azevedo and photographer
Luiza Leite, who decided to revisit the
route American writer Jack Kerouac
covered in the 1950s, leading to the
classic On the Road. They aimed at
finding what still lingered of beatnik
and countercultural in 21st Century
America. Inexperienced in the
travelling field and with little money
on their pockets, the task proved to
be an adventure. Whether it be Navajo
Indians, hallucinations with peyote tea
or federal agents mistaking the author
for an Arab terrorist, everything that
happens with the foreigners during this
unpredictable journey put them face to
face with mixed feelings - deep hatred
and love - for the American culture.
Vengeful addresses a recurring
wish for most people, seldom
fulfilled: to take revenge for the
humiliation and injuries they have
suffered. Sara Gomes, the leading
character, owner of a bankrupt
laundry service store, lists eight
men that, from her point of view,
despised her in the past, and
moves on to revenge. Will this all
pay off? Claudia Tajes leaves it for
the reader to decide.
RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY (CAVALLO DI FERRO)
Flavia Lins
e Silva
Flavio Carneiro
João Anzanello
Carrascoza
João Anzanello
Carrascoza
Aos sete
e aos
quarenta
Pilar’s Diary Of Greece /
Diário de Pilar na Grécia
The Championship /
O campeonato
At Seven And At Forty /
Aos sete e aos quarenta
Pilar loves travelling. Her series of
books is well known in Brazil. Now
she keeps a diary, describing every
moment of her first adventure.
She grew up without her dad, in
her grandpa’s house. When Pilar’s
grandpa goes to Greece and she
hears that he is never coming back,
she cannot accept it and wishes
she could go after him. With a
magic hammock, she and her best
friend Breno travel to Greece and
meet several gods along the way.
But life among them isn’t easy
and no one will ever be the same
after this adventure. Pilar’s Diary of
Greece is charmingly illustrated by
Joana Penna – the Agency’s first
represented illustrator.
André will not settle down
professionally due to his
uncontrollable compulsion to
reading detective novels. Inspired by
characters such as Sherlock Holmes
and Hercule Poirot, he decides to
take a detective distance course
which will send him into a bizarre
investigation of a competition
called “The Championship”. André
goes through streets and bars
in Rio de Janeiro, and is Flavio
Carneiro’s homage to the city, as
well as to mystery novels, and to his
favourite authors – Rubem Fonseca,
especially. The book’s protagonist,
all in all, is the detective novel itself,
object of passion of heroes and
criminals.
Carrascoza’s first novel At
Seven and At Forty reveals
the experiences of a man in
two seminal periods of human
existence. The first part, in the
1970’s, shows the character at his
coming of age, living in a small
Brazilian town in which rural culture
prevails. Back then he exercises
a discovery look. It is dream time.
In the other part, at his forties,
in 2010, he lives in a big city,
impacted by media and its ways to
make everything spectacular, and
sees himself before an inventory of
his own experiences. It is reason
time.
Livia Garcia-Roza
Letícia Wierzchowski
The Getka / Os Getka
Liliana’s Notebook /
Caderno de Liliana
Andrzej is a writer who wants to
find a start to his new book after the
end of his marriage. Trying to write, his memories take him to
when he was a boy and spent the summers with the family in a
desert beach. Their summers were shared with the Getka, and
there was Lylia, the brave and beautiful youngest daughter of
the Getkas. Fantasy and reality, past and present, show that
life is capricious: the doors it opens may close with no previous
warning, and no compass can ever make sure we will reach the
destination of our dreams.
The Angel and the Rest of Us /
O Anjo e o resto de nós
About to become a TV series, the book unveils
the difficulties, hates, loves, controversies
and tragedies in a family saga beautifully told
through generations.
Luis
Fernando Verissimo
Liliana’s house grew bigger and turned into a
complete mess without her mother. Roque and
Peu, the girl’s brothers, are always up to something.
Her father has no time for the kids. Her aunt and
her grandmother do not listen to her. And Jacyra,
the maid, is always busy cleaning or doing laundry.
Liliana then learns that living without a mother is
“terrible” and that she has to find a way to deal with
her absence. It is through everyday life, speech and
writing at a compass of a child, that this literary
and spontaneous narrative on learning, growing
up, losing the ones we love, and reorganising
our affections is built. In this sensitive story, with
touches of humour, Livia’s fiction is unveiled in its
best shape.
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Somewhere In
Paradise /
Em Algum Lugar
do Paraíso
Justice / Justiça
From our fantasies on the first man on earth to our
anguish on the inevitable passage of time, Verissimo
makes us laugh with his sophisticated humour and
great narrative elegance. It is paradise: the talent
of one of the most respected Brazilian writers in
irresistible chronicles about time, love, and lost
opportunities – as well as those that might still be
taken.
Based on a conversation with a taxi
driver who was shocked by the news
of a
colleague’s murder during a robbery,
Soares
attempts to dissolve certainties of common sense in his new
book. What exactly is violence? Is there a relationship between
a committed crime and the punishment applied? Would Human
Rights defence stimulate impunity? The author goes to the core
of these and other issues.
Elite Squad 2 – Graphic novel
/ Elite da Tropa 2 – Graphic
novel
The graphic novel adaptation of Elite Squad
2 counts with the collaboration of graphic
artist Marcus Wagner and revisits themes and characters from
Elite Squad (Objetiva, 2006) as well as from Elite Squad 2 (Nova
Fronteira, 2010) and the homonymous films.
LLya Luft
Marcelo
Ferroni
Maria Tereza
Maldonado
Practical
The World´S Wealth /
A Riqueza do Mundo
With a 30-year trajectory in
Literature and more than 20
books published, novelist, poet,
translator and essayist Lya Luft
is one of the biggest Brazilian
editorial prodigies of our times,
with more than 1.2 million copies
sold. The surprising essay book
Losses and Gains, a gigantic
success with rights sold in many
countries, was at the top the
Brazilian bestselling list for 113
weeks. The World’s Wealth is dry
and poetic at the same time. Lya
tackles human existential issues,
our perplexities, education,
family, authority, morality versus
moralism, and some of the most
pungent problems of our society:
wars, poverty, politics, to name a
few.
Guerrilla Warfare:
A Manual / Método
Prático da Guerrilha
The name Che Guevara is not
unfamiliar, but few know the details
that led to his downfall in 1966
and 1967. Isolated in Tanzania and
depressed with the recent guerrilla
failure in the Congo, he gathers his
most faithful followers to plot a new
revolution. His goal is now Bolivia.
Tired of the Cuban bureaucracy,
he wants things done his way: no
deals, no concessions, and with
the unbeatable method he himself
created. Practical Guerrilla Warfare
is a work of fiction. It is a novel of
ambition and madness based on
true events — the last revolutionary
expedition of Che Guevara —, but
which subverts documented history,
recreating characters and scenarios.
It’s also a love story, and a pastiche,
of the few who remained by the
fighter’s side until his final moments.
The Hidden Side /
A Face Oculta
Humiliation, hostility and defamation
compose a three-term equation
named bullying or cyberbullying.
Luciana knows this well enough.
She stays up late on the computer,
chatting with friends, and when
Marcelo chooses her as his target
and starts to send her offensive
messages through her mobile phone,
she does not know how to deal with
this unknown enemy.
RIGHTS SOLD: GERMANY (SUHRKAMP);
ITALY (MONDADORI); PORTUGAL (DOM
QUIXOTE); SPAIN (ALFAGUARA)
Paulo Roberto
Pires
Marina
Colasanti
Maria Valéria
Rezende
The Flight Of The Red
Ibis / O Voo da Guará
Vermelha
Maria Valéria’s first novel is the tale
of an unlikely and deeply moving love
between an illiterate construction
worker in São Paulo and an HIVpositive prostitute who has lost the
will to live. He needs someone to
listen to the stories he has to tell –
even though he doesn’t know how
to read or write; she in turn needs
someone who can truly love her.
Together, these two anonymous and
invisible people weave a beautiful
tale about the need for affection that
afflicts people in the modern world. In
a truly original voice, the author draws
inspiration from classical references
such as Thousand and One Nights as
well as from the pace and language
of cordel, a traditional style of popular
writing very common in north-eastern
Brazil.
My War Of Theirs /
Minha guerra alheia
If One Of Us Die / Se
um de nós morrer
In this moving memoir whose
reminiscences shift from dramatic
to sweet, historical to emotive,
Marina tells of WWII seen through
the eyes of a child. The book
opens with her parent’s wedding,
travels to Africa with her family,
the years in Italy during the War,
and watches their arrival to Brazil.
The author highlights the inner
strength of the women around her,
like her mother and her babysitter, who kept their heads up in
the hardest circumstances. Her
father, a happy and generous
man, volunteered at the war.
Marina tries to grasp the source of
his passion, and this questioning
and the consequences of the
conflict in her family’s life are the
substance with which she crafts
this outstanding book.
Théo, traumatised with the failure
of his first book and paralised by
his incapacity to write a second
book, dies without getting rid of
the destructive impulse of writing.
After a torrid and passionate night
with his ex-girlfriend, she finds him
dead on his bed after coming back
to get the mobile phone she had
left. In a red envelope wrapped in
plastic paper he left on the drawer,
the inscription - ‘To Sofia’. Sofia
must fulfill his last wish – send to
Catalan writer Enrique Vila-Matas
some sort of legacy of anguish –
manuscripts of a book that has
never existed. So as to accomplish
the mission, she goes to Paraty,
where the 2005 edition of the
International Literary Festival of
Paraty (FLIP) is being held and
of which Vila-Matas is one of the
invited authors.
RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE (EDITIONS MÉTAILIÉ);
PORTUGAL (OFICINA DO LIVRO); SPAIN –
CATALAN (CLUB EDITOR)
Rosa
Amanda
Strausz
Sergio
Rodrigues
Seven Bones And A
Curse / Sete ossos e
uma maldição
Elza
In a bold mixture of reality and
fiction, historical research and literary
invention, this fast-paced novel
Eleven hair-raising short-stories are
tells the real tragic story of Elza
told in Seven Bones and a Curse.
Fernandes, a 16 year-old communist
But fear does not paralyse here, on
who got involved in the famous
the contrary: it makes you want to
“Intentona” – a failed attempt to
turn page after page, quicker and
overthrow the Brazilian government
quicker - but not without taking a
orchestrated in 1935 by the Third
deep breath first.
International.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)
Tony Bellotto
Socorro Acioli
The Ghost Ballerina /
A bailarina fantasma
The Theater José de Alencar was about
to be renovated. Marcelo, an architect
expert in old buildings, was hired to
coordinate the works. His mission was
to make the theater look exactly as it
looked on its first day. Marcelo was a
widower with a daughter, Anabela, who
had a scary meeting with a ghost right at
the first day of the renovation work. That
was the ghost of a young girl, a dancer,
who used to appear in the theatre.
Anabela then embarked on a journey
to the past days of that place and got
involved in a story of love, revenge and
mysteries, carried by the cold breath
and the diaphanous presence of the
ghost dancer, who would only be free
after sorting out, with Anabela’s help,
something important that she wasn’t
able to do in life.
Down In The Hole / No Buraco
Tony Bellotto is a rock musician and writer – his new book, Down in the Hole, is in the intersection of Tony’s two
main talents. Narrated in first person, the book tells the misadventures of Teo Zanquis, a decadent rocker in his
fifties who took part of a one hit band in the 1980s. He tells of his frantic life on the road, in the golden times, and
of his recent passion for a young Korean girl he met at a record shop in São Paulo. With extraordinary dialogues,
the story is full of humour, sex, drugs, and rock’ n roll. There are many musical references from the 1980s and
backwards, which may spark varied (and pleasant) doses of nostalgia.
RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)
PARTIAL AUTHOR´S LIST:
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
CHILDREN & YA
CLASSICS
Adélia PRADO
Alcione ARAUJO
Ariano SUASSUNA
Arthur DAPIEVE
Beatriz BRACHER
Carlos Herculano LOPES
Cíntia MOSCOVICH
Claudia TAJES
Dodô AZEVEDO
Flávio CARNEIRO
João A. CARRASCOZA
João Silvério TREVISAN
Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI
Livia GARCIA-ROZA
Adriana FALCÃO
Flávia LINS E SILVA
Luciana SAVAGET
Marcelo PIRES
Marcio VASSALLO
Marina COLASANTI
Socorro ACIOLI
Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ
Caio Fernando ABREU
Carlos DRUMMOND de ANDRADE
Érico VERÍSSIMO
João CABRAL de MELO NETO
Jorge de LIMA
José Cândido de CARVALHO
Mario QUINTANA
Otto Lara RESENDE
Paulo Emílio SALES GOMES
Paulo Mendes CAMPOS
Rachel de QUEIROZ
Sérgio PORTO
Sylvia ORTHOF
Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO
Luiz Eduardo SOARES
Lya LUFT
Lygia Fagundes TELLES
Marcelo FERRONI
Maria Adelaide AMARAL
Maria Tereza
MALDONADO
Maria Valéria REZENDE
Roberto DaMATTA
Sérgio RODRIGUES
Tony BELLOTTO
Vitor RAMIL
Zuenir VENTURA
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