2015

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2015

2015
www.agenciariff.com.br
Fiction
BARBARA, Vanessa – Operation Unthinkable .............................................................................4
BRACHER, Beatriz – Anatomy of Paradise .................................................................................5
CAFIERO, Flavio
The Cold Out There ................................................................................................................6
Ten Centimeters Above the Ground ........................................................................................7
LÍSIAS, Ricardo – Concentration and Other Stories .....................................................................8
MONTENEGRO, Tércia – Tourism for the Blind .......................................................................9
PERES, Marcos
The Gospel According to Hitler ..............................................................................................10
Whatever Happened to Juliana Klein? ..................................................................................11
REZENDE, Maria Valéria – Vast World.....................................................................................12
RODRIGUES, Henrique – The Next in Line .............................................................................13
TEZZA, Cristovão
The Professor........................................................................................................................14
Juliano Pavollini .................................................................................................................15
The Eternal Son ...................................................................................................................16
WIERZCHOWSKI, Leticia – Sail the Tear ..............................................................................17
Nonfiction
GASPAR, Malu – All In: Eike Batista and the True Story of the X Group .................................. 18
MONTEIRO, Karla – Karmatopia .......................................................................................... 19
SOARES, Luiz Eduardo – Rio de Janeiro: Stories of Life and Death........................................... 20
Children’s and Young Readers’
CARRANCA, Adriana – Malala: The Girl Who Wanted to Go to School ..................................... 22
COLASANTI, Marina – Short Story of a Tiny Love ................................................................. 23
LACERDA, Rodrigo – Hamlet: Shakespeare for Curious Youngters and Lazy Adults .................. 24
LINS E SILVA, Flávia – Pilar’s Diary of Africa ........................................................................ 25
FRANCO, Blandina/LOLLO, José Carlos – The Anger.............................................................. 26
STRAUSZ, Rosa Amanda – A Knot in the Head ....................................................................... 27
OPERATION UNTHINKABLE (Operação impensável)
Vanessa Barbara
Intrínseca, 2015
224 pages
Two weeks after the end of the World War II, British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill ordered the military to draw up a suprise plan of attack on the Soviet
Union. The offensive, which would surely spark World War III, was codenamed
Operation Unthinkable. For historian Lia, this would be the most symbolic
marker of the beginning of the Cold War, the conflict between communist and
capitalist countries that lasted 45 years.
Operation Unthinkable is also the name of a plan devised by Lia during a
marital battle that lasts for 43 agonizing days.
In this novel, winner of the Paraná Prize for Literature in 2014, Vanessa
Barbara follows the five-year relationship between Lia and Tito, a programmer, a love peppered
with witty e-mails, vocabulary of their own invention, many movies and long, contested board game
battles. With dashes of biting humor, she uncovers the slow disintegration of a marriage. Affection
and closeness give rise to distrust, a climate of tension and implicit threats. As in the Cold War, the
subject of Lia’s master’s thesis, there is no declared military conflict, but something always seems
ready to explode.
Vanessa Barbara (São Paulo, 1982) is a journalist, translator, and writer. She is also the publisher of the
Hortaliça newspaper (www.hortifruti.org), a prestigious and irreverent media outlet that celebrated its
ten years of existence in 2012. She was selected as one of the twenty new promises in The Best Young
Brazilian Novelists, published by Granta. Vanessa has a monthly column at The New York Times.
Translated sample available in English.
Selected titles:
Noites de alface
Alfaguara, 2013
Czech Republic: Albatros Media
Denmark: Anton Ludwig
France: Éditions Zulma
Germany: Al Verlag
Italy: Corbaccio
Sweden: Natur & Kultur
O livro amarelo do terminal
Cosac Naify, 2008
- Winner of the Jabuti Prize
- Best book of journalism by the APCA
O verão do Chibo (with Emilio Fraia)
Alfaguara, 2012
- Shortlisted for the São Paulo Literature Award
Rights handled by Lucia Riff, [email protected] and Ana Paula Hisayama, [email protected]
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ANATOMY OF PARADISE (Anatomia do paraíso)
Beatriz Bracher
Editora 34, 2015
328 pages
In a studio apartment in Copacabana, a young middle-class student
writes a Master’s thesis on John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost (1667),
narrating man’s fall and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Paradise. The story
unfolds simultaneously on several planes: Félix the student’s daily life and
his reflections on Milton’s work; the harsh life of Vanda, Félix’s neighbor,
who divides her time between work, study, and caring for her teenage sister
Maria Joana. The narrative is dense, sometimes dizzying, dramatically gripping, as the
characters’ paths cross and the themes of lost Paradise (sex, violence, sin, guilt,
betrayal, death, and redemption) gain life in the protagonists’ experiences.
Beatriz Bracher (São Paulo, 1961) graduated in Literature and Writing. She was the editor of the
Literature and Philosophy magazine 34 Letras, and one of the founders of Editora 34, where she worked
for eight years. Beatriz is also an award winning screenwriter.
Selected titles:
Não falei
Editora 34, 2004
Germany: Assoziation A
Antonio
Editora 34, 2007
Germany: Assoziation A
Uruguay: Yaugurú
- Third place in the Jabuti Prize
- Second place in the Portugal Telecom Prize
- Shortlisted for the São Paulo Literature Prize
Meu amor (short stories)
Editora 34, 2009
Winner of the Clarice Lispector Prize,
from the National Library Foundation
Garimpo (short stories)
Editora 34, 2013
- Second place in the Brasilia Literature Award
- Longlisted for the Portugal Telecom Award 2014
- Best short stories book of 2013 from the São Paulo’s Art Critics Association
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THE COLD OUT HERE (O frio aqui fora)
Flavio Cafiero
Cosac Naify, 2014
256 pages
A man is passed up for a promotion at the company where he has worked for
13 years. At the same time his girlfriend leaves him. Everything falls apart and
the world is suddenly a different place: coping strategies take over, relationships
become shaky, certainties melt. Even words lose their everyday meanings.
In this sudden shifting scene, the project that has been stashed in his drawer
since adolescence resurfaces: he must become a writer. The loneliness of having
his future in his hands is crushing. The world is treacherous, and in the African
Savanna, anything can change at any moment. Intention and chance, reason and
instinct, equilibrium and chaos: borders dissolve into an eternal now. Walking
away seems to be the only way out. The present is bitter. The cold, here outside, can be unbearable.
Flavio Cafiero was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1971 and lives in São Paulo since 1994. With a degree in
Advertising, he worked for 12 years as a Product Manager, until recently changing careers from a top
executive to a writer. He is also an actor, dramaturge and scriptwriter for film and television.
Awards:
Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize
Shortlisted for the São Paulo Literature Prize
Selected titles:
Dez centimetros acima do chão (short stories)
Cosac Naify, 2014
- City of Belo Horizonte Prize, for the mastery of the narrative, the control of the rhythm and the coherent aesthetic proposition of the texts
O capricórnio se aproxima (novella)
E-galaxia, 2014
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TEN CENTIMETERS ABOVE THE GROUND (Dez centímetros acima do chão)
Flavio Cafiero
Cosac Naify, 2014
160 pages
“In this robust collection of short stories, Cafiero picks through the minutiae
of middle-class life in an abrasive, ironic and formally rebellious style. With
obsessive determination and rambling speeches, his characters reveal to us a
catalogue of anxieties, suffering, hopes and pettiness that are part of modern life.”
Daniel Galera
“He has technical skill and a very personal way of talking about things, a bit
melancholic and disturbing, very philosophical, but at the same time simple.”
Noemi Jaffe
Flavio Cafiero was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1971 and lives in São Paulo since 1994. With a degree in
Advertising, he worked for 12 years as a Product Manager, until recently changing careers from a top
executive to a writer. He is also an actor, dramaturge and scriptwriter for film and television.
Awards:
City of Belo Horizonte Prize, for the mastery of the narrative, the control of the rhythm and the coherent aesthetic proposition of the texts.
Selected titles:
O frio aqui fora
Cosac Naify, 2014
- Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize
O capricórnio se aproxima (novella)
E-galaxia, 2014
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CONCENTRATION AND OTHER STORIES (Concentração e outros contos)
Ricardo Lísias
Alfaguara, 2015
272 pages
“Ricardo Lísias’s writing is carefully crafted. Comparisons to some of the heavyweights
of world literature do not stem from parochial exaggerations by critics.”
Leyla Perrone-Moisés
“Concerned both with the tensions of intimacy and public matters, such as
torture or the complexities of the business world, in total command of his craft
and patiently dedicated to the systematic construction of an original work,
he has already proved himself to be more than a safe bet within the new
generation of Brazilian writers.”
Fábio de Souza Andrade
“A sledgehammer literature, incisive, razor-sharp.”
Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton University
“Very few novels have made such an impact on the academic world, in the press and on social media in
Brazil in recent years as Ricardo Lísias’s Divorce.”
Adriano Schwarz, University of São Paulo (USP)
“Lísias is the most radical contemporary writer in terms of his corrosive and accurate critique of the dominant
trend that is autobiographical fiction. In Lísias’s prose, the eccentricities of the human body, and especially of
its physiology, are still an effective antidote to the monotonous image of a self-centred subjectivity, which is
conversely suggestive of a writer’s trade: on the razor’s edge, as if gouging into flesh the breath of a phrase.”
João Cesar de Castro Rocha
Ricardo Lísias was born in São Paulo in 1975. Some of his texts were published in Piauí and the
Brazilian Granta magazines and he was selected for Granta’s issue dedicated to The Best Young
Brazilian Novelists.
Translated story (“Evo Morales”) in English, Hebrew, Japanese and Spanish.
Selected titles:
O livro dos mandarins
Alfaguara Brasil, 2009
Argentina: Adriana Hidalgo
Italy: Barbès Editore
Divórcio
- Longlisted for the Portugal Prize
O céu dos suicidas
- Best novel of 2012 from the São Paulo’s Art
Critics association
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TOURISM FOR THE BLIND (Turismo para cegos)
Tércia Montenegro
Companhia das Letras, 2015
224 pages
“A beautiful, often cruel novel.”
O Estado de S. Paulo
Laila’s life is about to be torn apart. This young art student’s plans are derailed
by an incurable degenerative disease, one that will rob her of her sight. As her
blindness progresses everyday tasks become challenges, and everything that was
familiar to her needs to be explored and rediscovered. There is also something
new about her relationship with Pierre, an apparently impassive civil servant,
who devotes himself to taking care of Laila.
The female narrator of this story works in a pet shop where the couple try to
get a guide dog. In this surprising novel, the writer Tércia Montenegro feels her way along the paths
that distance people as well as bringing them together, poetically uncovering a labyrinthine flow of
uncertainties and, above all, the hunger for the unknown that underpins so many human encounters.
Tércia Montenegro was born in Fortaleza, where she still lives. She is a photographer and a professor
at the Federal University of Ceará. Her works have been published in several Brazilian and foreign
anthologies, and Tércia has also written works for children and young readers.
Selected titles:
O tempo em estado sólido (short stories)
Grua, 2012
- State of Minas Gerais Literature Prize
- Ideal Clube National Literature Prize
- Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize
- Shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HITLER (O evangelho segundo Hitler)
Marcos Peres
Record, 2013
352 pages
Jorge Luis Borges, an octogenarian Argentinian based in Berlin, travels to
Geneva to take revenge on his greatest enemy – fellow octogenarian and
famous Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. Since childhood, this onomastic
coincidence has been the seed – now fully blossomed – of the rancour that
completely takes over the disturbed mind of the lesser-known Borges. As
in Borgesian texts, in which archetypal rivals dedicate their lives to fighting
invisible battles, The Gospel According to Hitler portrays the clash between
Borges and… the other Borges. A series of misunderstandings comes about as a
result of their shared name. To impress the woman he loves, Borges, the obscure
one – passes himself off as his famous counterpart and becomes involved in a
German sect. The sect sees in his writing (that is, in the other’s writing) a prophecy for the future of
humanity, namely, that a Judas figure must exist in order for there to be a saviour. In a comedy of errors,
Borges’ texts (and their false interpretations) are warmly received by proto-Nazi factions, ultimately
coming to the attention of the one man best placed to embody the role of Judas: Adolph Hitler.
The Gospel According to Hitler is a novel about an enigma, in which one of Borges’ most famous stories
– ‘Three Versions of Judas’, from Ficciones – is artfully linked to the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich.
The dizzying plot, encompassing coincidences, plagiarism, religion and conspiracies, is a tribute to the
cosmic labyrinth of the great Argentinian writer. It is also a call for a more critical and careful reading of
the many conspiracy theories and misinterpretations we are presented with daily, in literature as much
as in life.
Marcos Peres was born in Maringá, in the southern state of Paraná, in 1984. He holds a degree in law
and works for the Paraná Courts of Justice.
Awards:
Selected titles:
- Winner of the 2012/2013
Que fim levou Juliana Klein? (Record, 2015)
SESC Prize for Literature
- Winner of the São Paulo Literature Prize
The Gospel According To Hitler sold to:
Portugal: Nova Delphi
Spain: Maresia
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JULIANA KLEIN? (Que fim levou Juliana Klein?)
Marcos Peres
Record, 2015
352 pages
In his award-winning debut novel The Gospel According to Hitler, Marcos
Peres told the absurd (and delightful) story of how a man with the same name
as writer Jorge Luis Borges’ would have influenced Hitler in his terrible plan to
dominate Europe.
His second book, a crime novel, brings readers up to date on a long dispute
between the Kochs and Kleins, two families that have hated one another for
generations. Leaving Frankfurt to settle in Curitiba, their disputes continue both
in terms of ideas (they are intellectuals who teach at the two main universities
of the state of Paraná) and in terms of physical violence.
The strange disappearance of philosophy professor Juliana Klein, a complex
case, brings an impulsive detective back to the city of Curitiba from his hometown of Maringa. Irineu
de Freitas became involved with the Klein family during a prior investigation of a crime and wound up
mixing work with pleasure, putting aside the rules and ethical boundaries of his profession. He is an
obsessive hero. The challenge he faces is huge: understanding the historical and philosophical roots of
this conflict between two families. Finding the solution to several crimes hinges on what he finds among
those involved, in the material evidence of the murders, as well as in the discussions contained in books
the detective has barely heard of. Dante, Saint Augustine, Sartre and primarily Nietzche provide clues to
unravel the murders that keep piling up.
Spanning several periods in time and with more than one narrative focus, Marcos Peres challenges
us with a puzzle that is solved to a certain extent by Irineu, but which also demands that the reader
participate, choosing between possible hypotheses.
Marcos Peres was born in Maringá, in the southern state of Paraná, in 1984. He holds a degree in law
and works for the Paraná Courts of Justice.
Selected titles:
O evangelho Segundo Hitler
Record, 2013
Portugal: Nova Delphi
Spain: Maresia
- Winner of the 2012/2013
SESC Prize for Literature
- Winner of the São Paulo Literature Prize
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VAST WORLD (Vasto mundo)
Maria Valéria Rezende
Alfaguara, 2015
168 pages
“I know them all. I recognise them by their footsteps and by their footsteps I know
their moods, their feelings, their pressing needs, their aversions, their state of
contentment or despair. I know of their greatness and their meanness. (…) It was
their incessant footsteps that woke me from my deep slumber. I alone know them
because I alone am always in them, as they are in me. They created me and now
I create them.”
In these short, interconnected vignettes, Maria Valéria Rezende tells us the
stories – heavy on charm – of the inhabitants of Farinhada, a fictitious village
in the Northeast of Brazil. Women of substance, fearless men, itinerant artists,
charlatans, pious old ladies, young dreamers and progressive clergymen. The author masterfully depicts
a gallery of characters whose interwoven lives tell the history of a rich land, albeit one punished by
the elements; a land that sees and records everything, and that emerges as the true protagonist of this
impressive book.
Maria Valéria Rezende was born in Santos. In 1965 she joined the Order of Our Lady of Charity.
She has dedicated her life to teaching – first in the low-income suburbs of São Paulo and, later in the
Northeast, where she lived in rural communities. In 1986 she moved to João Pessoa, state capital of
Paraíba, where she lives to this day. In 2001 she published her first work of fiction, Vast World, now
completely revised by the author and re-launched in a new edition.
Translated story (“Vast World”) available in English, Spanish, French and Italian.
Selected titles:
O voo da guará vermelha (Objetiva, 2005)
Spain/Catalan: Club Editor
France: Editions Métailié
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THE NEXT IN LINE (O próximo da fila)
Henrique Rodrigues
Record, 2015
192 pages
“In The Next in Line Henrique Rodrigues displays self-assuredness and technical
skill in structuring and developing the plot, (...) chiefly via short, dynamic
chapters. In addition he incorporates ironic touches, an aptitude for synthesis and
innovatively constructed dialogues, giving rise to a lively text that you cannot
put down.”
Antônio Torres
Rio de Janeiro in the 1990s. A time of hyperinflation and economic uncertainty,
but also of rap, creativity and rebellion.
After his father’s death, the protagonist starts sharing household responsibilities with his mother. He
goes to work for the first time in a fast-food outlet, one of those global franchises where everything
is standardized, a kind of microcosm of the contemporary capitalist world. This for him is a time of
discoveries, love affairs and ups and downs.
The Next in Line is a coming-of-age novel that follows the main character’s journey from his childhood
until he starts university.
When writing this debut novel, a task he performs with a very steady hand, Henrique drew on his own
experiences as a teenager, when he too flipped burgers and picked up cigarette butts in the car park of a
fast-food outlet.
Henrique Rodrigues was born in 1975 in Rio de Janeiro a literature advisor for the SESC, a private
sector organization that provides cultural and sports centres in over 2,000 Brazilian cities. He published
books for children and young people, and his work has appeared in various anthologies. He is currently
compiling an anthology of short stories inspired by the songs of Noel Rosa.
Selected titles:
A musa diluída (poetry, Record, 2006)
Como se não houvesse amanhã: 20 contos inspirados em músicas da Legião Urbana
(short stories, Record, 2010).
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THE PROFESSOR (O professor)
Cristovão Tezza
Record, 2010
240 pages
Professor Heliseu wakes from a night of disturbed sleep. It is the day he will be
honored for an exemplary career at the university. He has only to prepare his
speech for the ceremony — a simple task for someone accustomed to speaking
to crowded auditoriums, and able to turn even thorny subjects into brilliant
classes.
Alone in his apartment — though Dona Diva will arrive shortly to prepare his
breakfast —, Heliseu is inundated with an uncontrollable flood of memories,
revisiting moments from his life, some not so pleasant: his strict father; the
mysterious death of his mother; his time in the seminary; his marriage to
Monica; a troubled relationship with his son; his passion for the elusive Therèze.
Remembrances interlace with the history of Brazil, the military regime of recent governments, and
Heliseu comes to terms with his past as the country comes to terms with its history.
In this, his most proustian book, Cristovão Tezza builds an intricate battle of a man with his guilt and
life regrets — all concentrated into a few hours of a regular day. Cristovão Tezza was born in Lages, Santa Catarina, but as a child moved to Curitiba, where he lives to
this day, dedicated to literature.
The Professor sold to:
Italy: Fazi
Finland: Aviador
Norway: Solum Forlag
Selected titles:
O filho eterno (Record, 2007)
Rights sold in 17 countries
- Jabuti Prize 2008
- Portugal Telecom Prize 2008
- São Paulo Prize for Literature 2008
- Charles Brisset Award for Best Book of the Year 2009
- Shortlisted for the International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award 2012
Juliano Pavollini (Record, 2010)
Poland: Filia
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JULIANO PAVOLLINI
Cristovão Tezza
Record, 2010
240 pages
Juliano Pavollini is 16 years old when he leaves his home in the countryside of
Paraná to Curitiba. After the death of his father — a strict man, Catholic and
hard working, and never satisfied with his son’s achievements —, the protaganist
sets out in search of his dreams.
Like his father, he asks himself, “What will I be? Nothin.” Until, to his surprise,
he meets Isabela, an amazing and rich woman, proprietress of a brothel in the
city, who becomes his protector. Juliano’s new life will be built on petty crimes,
while he aspires to rise to the standards of the middle class.
Years later, in prision, Pavollini recounts his past to a psychologist, patching
together the memories of an insecure adolescence the reflection of a mature man, guilty of the path his
destiny took. Through this second voice, in a tone of testemony, the protaganist seeks to see the past
clearly so that he may, in the future, win conquer his freedom.
Cristovão Tezza was born in Lages, Santa Catarina, but as a child moved to Curitiba, where he lives to
this day, dedicated to literature.
Full translation available in Spanish, translated sample in French.
Juliano Pavollini sold to:
Poland: Filia
Selected titles:
O filho eterno (Record, 2007)
Rights sold in 17 countries
- Jabuti Prize 2008
- Shortlisted for the International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award 2012
O professor (Record, 2014)
Finland: Aviador
Italy: Fazi
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THE ETERNAL SON (O filho eterno)
Cristovão Tezza
Record, 2007
223 pages
Reading this compelling book is like stumbling through a trap door into the
writer’s mind, where nothing is censored, and everything is constantly examined
and reinterpreted. What emerges is a hard-won philosophy of everyday life.
It is extraordinary to encounter a common human drama — the birth of a
disabled child — investigated profoundly by a father who happens to be a
gifted writer.
The Eternal Son is an honest and insightful story by one of Brazil’s foremost
contemporary novelists. It is world literature at its finest.
Cristovão Tezza was born in Lages, Santa Catarina, but as a child moved to
Curitiba, where he lives to this day, dedicated to literature.
Full translation available in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Awards:
- Jabuti Prize 2008
- Shortlisted for the International
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012
Selected titles:
O professor
Record, 2014
Finland: Aviador
Italy: Fazi
Juliano Pavollini
Record, 2010
Poland: Filia
The eternal son sold to:
Australia and UK: Scribe
Catalonia: Club editor
China, People’s Literature publishing house
Denmark: Forlaget Vandkusten
Eslovenia, Zalozba Modrijan
France: Editions Métailiè
Holland: Uitgeverij Contact
Italy: Sperling & Kupfer
Macedonia: Ikona
Mexico: Elephas
Norway, Solum forlag
Poland, Filia
Portugal: Gradiva
Romania: Modrijan
Serbia, Plato publishing
United States, Tagus press
Ukraine, Grani-T
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SAIL THE TEAR (Navegue a lágrima)
Leticia Wierzchowski
Intrínseca, 2015
206 pages
A beach house, in an idyllic resort in Uruguay, is the set of two stories of love
and loss separated in time.
Consumed by grief, the editor Heloísa chooses to leave her hometown for a life
in isolation at the holiday home of Laura Berman, a popular writer.
In between drinks, surrounded by personal belongings and reminiscences of
previous residents, Heloísa is visited by their memories stored inside those four
walls: the running around of children, sunny days lazily spent by the pool, the
tender romance of Laura and her husband Leon. If it is hallucination or magic,
the new tenant cannot define. Little by little, as she rummages inside chests,
she plunges into the conflictual universe of the writer; discovering small daily
betrayals and the unrelenting wearing out inflicted by the passing of time on the most solid relationships.
This understanding slowly allows Heloísa to face her own ghosts and reveals the story of a great passion.
Leticia Wierzchowski (Porto Alegre, 1972) is a talented contemporary Brazilian author. Her fifth novel,
The House of Seven Women (A casa das sete mulheres), was adapted by TV Globo to become a TV
miniseries, and was aired in more than 40 countries.
Selected titles:
A casa das sete mulheres (Record, 2002)
Croatia: Naklada Ljevak
France: JC Lattès
Germany: Random Bertelsmann/Blanvalet
Greece: Enalios
Italy: R.C.S Libri
Iugoslavia: Alfa Narodna
Serbia and Montenegro: IKP Evro-Giunti
Spain: Ediciones B
Spain (pocket edition): Byblos
Um farol no Pampa (Record, 2004)
Serbia and Montenegro: KP Evro-Giunt
Spain: Ediciones B
Sal (Intrínseca, 2014)
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ALL IN (Tudo ou nada)
Malu Gaspar
Record, 2014
546 pages
All In: Eike Batista and the True Story of the X Group recounts the greatest
business adventure in recent Brazilian history — the dramatic rise and fall
of Eike Batista, until recently the richest man in Brazil and the 7th richest
individual in the world.
Based on over one hundred exclusive interviews with key figures involved in
the X Group and a wealth of never-before-seen private documents, Rio-based
journalist Malu Gaspar tells the story of an entrepreneur whose career has
included a series of brilliant hits, earning Batista the nickname ‘the Brazilian
Midas’, as well as some spectacular misses. In telling the story of how one
man surfed the Brazilian commodities wave and was ultimately crushed by an
uncontrollable spiral of problems, Gaspar also explores the inner workings of global capitalism and the
investment schemes that allowed Brazil’s major banks to bankroll Batista’s ascent.
Gaspar’s account transports readers into corporate boardrooms, bank waiting rooms, executive jets, and
billionaire parties while detailing the building of the X empire. Batista’s outsized megalomania led him
to believe he could do anything, even prevail upon giant companies such as Vale or Petrobrás for favours.
The author writes as if she were an eyewitness to the epic rivalries between Batista and some of the most
powerful businessmen in Brazil. Readers will learn about Batista’s strange, unorthodox and dubious
alliance with President Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva, who considered the self-made billionaire to be a
symbol of his administration’s economic triumphs.
Gaspar deftly narrates what happened internally at the X Group as its companies suffered publicly. Eike
Batista’s story is about how one man’s inexplicable attraction to risk, excessive arrogance, and barely
concealed contempt for mundane details were both the secret of his success and the cause of his downfall.
Malu Gaspar was born in São Paulo, where she worked as a reporter for the Folha de São Paulo
newspaper and was senior editor at Exame magazine. At Veja in Rio de Janeiro, Malu Gaspar was
deputy editor. She is now a reporter at Piauí magazine.
Translated samples available in English.
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KARMATOPIA
Karla Monteiro
Civilização Brasileira, 2014
288 pages
A road-trip book — an ode to travellers who seek answers and ‘home’ in
the unknown. Following the great tradition of road classics — Kipling, Jack
Kerouac, Paul Theroux, among other masters of the art of travel —, Karla
Monteiro journeys through India by bus, train, plane, tuk-tuk, rickshaw, boat
and on foot. She spoke to hundreds; did a 10 day silent retreat in the monastery
of the Dalai Lama; radical detox treatments and had psychedelic experiences —
all in 195 intense days between 2011 and 2012.
Karmatopia moves between essay, novel and reportage, stitching together
the narrator’s encounters with her characters, herself and a landscape of 1.2
billion people, living amassed in a chaos of sounds, smells, colors and shapes.
The India of Karmatopia is a spiritual Disneyland, where people all over the
world disembark in search of a balm for existence. The India of Karmatopia is also a real country, where
survival is key. “My starting place for this book was the consumption of India. The question was: why
are we, westerners, so desperate? India figures in the imagination of the West as a transcendental portal.
In some ways this is absolutely true. Hindu philosophy, buddism, yoga… They all invert the logic that
reduces life to production and consumption. But, surrounding this philosophical India, there is the real
India, and that one is a nonstop adventure”.
The book is, above all, a mosaic of surprising characters: a hippy who shared a yard with Allen Ginsberg
and the Grateful Dead in San Francisco and left for Goa in the 60s, inaugurating a mythic Indian
beach; an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in the Himalayas and now runs a monastery
for women; a young Belgian who left a million dollar job in market financing to meditate; a guru and
doctrine hating German marxist... With fluid and engaging language, the narrator constructs the story
of a generation that sought the utopia of Thomas Morus, in the style of the beatniks and hippies, and in
Eastern knowledge its antidote. “India is a country of people on trips — literally and figuratively.”
Karla Monteiro was born in Minas Gerais in 1970. She graduated in Journalism, and has worked on
various publications, such as Veja, Folha de S. Paulo; O Globo, Piauí, Trip and Serafina.
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RIO DE JANEIRO: STORIES OF LIFE AND DEATH (Rio de Janeiro: histórias de vida e morte)
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Companhia das Letras, 2015
256 pages
The anthropologist Luiz Eduardo Soares, author of the book that inspired
the film Elite Squad, knows Rio de Janeiro like few others do. A renowned
researcher, an intellectual constantly writing for the press, and a former Public
Security advisor to state and federal governments, for decades he has rubbed
shoulders with the city’s ills: drug trafficking, police corruption and violence.
This book is the product of his unique experiences. The drug lord who wants
to quit a life of crime and tries to contact the then secretary of public safety to
seek impossible salvation. The policemen who machine-gun the home of the
author’s family in retaliation for his attempts to clean up the institution. The
wealthy man who abandons a life of luxury and material comfort in order to
become a drug trafficker. All of this can be found in Rio de Janeiro.
But the tales he tells are much more than a set of memoirs. Seen as a whole, they constitute a provocative
interpretation of contemporary Brazil. Seeking to identify the origins of police authoritarianism in Brazil,
Luiz Eduardo revisits the tragic story of Dulce Pandolfi, a victim of torture at the hands of the military
regime, who reveals her experiences for the very first time. In an attempt to locate the roots of police
corruption and its links with federal-level politics, he draws on his recollections of when he was the
Worker’s Party’s candidate for the post of vice governor of Rio de Janeiro, recalling events that may well
have been connected to the beginnings of the Mensalão vote-buying scandal.
Written with a light touch, the pace of a thriller and journalistic flair, this book is a damning portrait of
inequality, racism, the demise of politics, state violence and the hatred that is spreading through the city,
endangering the exuberant beauty of Rio de Janeiro, the eternal picture-postcard image of Brazil.
Luiz Eduardo Soares is an academic, an activist and a writer. Professor of the Department of Social Sciences
at Rio de Janeiro State University, he teaches political science and sociology, with a particular emphasis on the
social invisibility of poor black youth in Brazil. He served as national secretary for public safety, and is author
of the bestselling and widely translated crime novels Elite Squad and Elite Squad 2, both of which have been
adapted for the big screen. The film Elite Squad won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.
Selected titles:
Elite da tropa
Objetiva, 2006
Argentina: Marea Editorial
Spain: Lince
USA: Weinstein
Italy: Bompiani
Poland: Wydawnictwo Książkowe Twój Styl
Portugal: Presença
Elite da Tropa 2
Nova Fronteira, 2010
France: Anacaona
Portugal: Presença
Translated samples available in English
Translation rights handled by Penguin UK, Kate I’Anson KI’[email protected]
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CHILDREN’S &
YOUNG READERS’
MALALA, THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO GO TO SCHOOL (Malala, a menina que queria ir para a escola)
Adriana Carranca, illustrated by Bruna Assis Brasil
Companhia das Letrinhas, 2015
96 pages
Malala Yousafzai became famous worldwide for her fight for the right to an
education. Raised in a peaceful region of Pakistan, she saw her world change
with the rise of the Taliban. Listening to music was now a crime; women were
not allowed to go to the market; and girls were banned from school.
Malala had been taught to stand up for what she believed in and she fought
long and hard to continue studying, until, on October 9, 2012, it almost cost her
life. Malala was shot in the head as she rode the bus to school, and few believed
she would pull through.
Today, Malala is a living example of the power of peaceful protest and is the
youngest-ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. In this journalistic work for children, Adriana Carranca
tells her story, and those of the two other girls shot in 2012, drawing a historical/political/cultural
panorama of Swat, which she visited soon after the attacks.
“As well as telling a true story, a kind of topsy-turvy fairy tale in which the main character does not want
to get married but rather to study, the journalist Adriana Carranca, a special reporter with the Estado de
São Paulo newspaper, creates for children and teenagers a genre that up until now has only been written
for adults: the non-fiction novel”.
Adriana Carranca is a special reporter for the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. She has
extensively covered the war in Afghanistan and important events in Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Israel,
Palestine, Haiti, Mexico, USA, Great Britain, Uganda, Congo, South Sudan.
Translated samples available in English
Selected titles:
O Irã sob o chador
Globo, 2010
-Winner of the Jabuti Prize
O Afeganistão depois do Talibã
Civilização Brasileira, 2011
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HAMLET: SHAKESPEARE FOR CURIOUS YOUNGSTERS AND LAZY
ADULTS (Hamlet ou Amleto? Shakespeare para jovens curiosos e adultos preguiçosos)
Rodrigo Lacerda
Zahar, 2015
296 pages
Award-winning author Rodrigo Lacerda does more than simply adapt one of
the most important and central texts of the theatre and our culture as a whole.
In Hamlet: Shakespeare for curious youngsters and lazy adults a narrative voice
accompanies the reader, leading us on an irresistible journey through the world
of Shakespeare.
From the starting point of the original text of Hamlet, translated by the author
himself, Lacerda informs, comments and delves into the references in each
scene – and interweaves all of this into an entertaining contemporary narrative,
in which he dialogues with an imaginary actor.
In the introduction to the book, the narrator sets the tone and describes what
an opening-night production of Hamlet would have been like: the grandeur of the stage (a dynamic,
three-dimensional space), the precariousness of the sound and lighting effects (with the performance
taking place in daylight and in the open air) and the challenges facing the actors, who were obliged to
play the roles of women (at that time only men could be actors), as well as other fascinating details about
realities backstage.
At the end of the book there is an appendix made up of three short sections, in which the author gives us
his personal insights into Shakespeare’s famous work: “Hamlets that I have read”, “Hamlets that I have
seen” and “Praise, critiques, parodies and anecdotes about Hamlet”.
Rodrigo Lacerda is a writer, translator, and editor. He has a doctorate in literary theory and comparative
literature from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Selected titles by Rodrigo Lacerda:
Vista do Rio (Cosac Naify, 2004)
Germany: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach
- Shortilisted for the Jabuti Prize
- Shortilisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize
- Shortilisted for the Zaffari & Bourbon Prize
O fazedor de velhos (Cosac Naify 2008)
French language: Joie de Lire
Mexico: Ediciones Castillo
- Best children’s book of 2008 by the National Library Foundation
- Best children’s book of 2008 by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book
- Winner of the Jabuti Prize
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SHORT STORY OF A TINY LOVE (Breve história de um pequeno amor)
Marina Colasanti
FTD, 2014
48 pages
The water that seeps into the office through a broken roof tile initiates an
encounter of love. The author, owner of that office, finds herself confronted
by the need of saving a life, the one of the baby pigeon abandoned in the
nest beneath the tiles. She will have to improvise as a mother, since she
knows nothing about the needs of those birds. And the pigeon will have to
improvise as a son, since he knows nothing about the one who protects and
cares for him. Like in all loving relationships, both of them progress slowly,
paying attention to one another while they seek to understand. They don’t
speak the same language, and they are not of the same species, but it doesn’t
matter much, because affection knows other ways to get to comprehension. And it is about affection
when she tries to teach him to fly, or when he, free, answers her call. Gently, the differences between them
are overcome at each new stage of development, at each new victory. Until the completion of this cycle
of goodwill that, being brief, becomes unforgettable.
Marina Colasanti was born in the former Italian colony of Eritrea in 1937. As a child, her family moved
back to Italy, from where they’ve emigrated to Brazil after the end of World War II. She is one of the
most awarded female Brazilian writers, author of about 40 books, including works for children and young
adults, short stories, novels, and essays. Graduated in Fine Arts, it is she who illustrates most of her books.
Marina is also a renowned translator from English, French, and Italian. [www.marinacolasanti.com]
Translated samples available in English and Spanish.
Awards:
Jabuti Prize for Children’s Book
Book of the Year by the Brazilian Book Chamber
Selected titles:
Uma ideia toda azul (short stories, Global, 1979)
- Highly Recommended, by the
- National Foundation of Children and YA Book 1979
Winner of the São Paulo’s Art Critics Association Prize
Entre a espada e a rosa (short stories, Melhoramentos, 1992)
- Jabuti Prize for Children’s Book 1993
- Highly Recommended, by the National Foundation of Children and YA Book
23 histórias de um viajante (short stories, Global, 2005)
Mais de 100 contos maravilhosos (short stories, Global, 2015)
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THE ANGER (A raiva)
Blandina Franco and José Carlos Lollo
Pequena Zahar, 2014
40 pages
In the beginning it was just a tiny little anger.
A silly little thing, that shouldn’t even be there,
but all the same, there it was.
Ordinary like the wish to take a nap,
have an ice cream or read this book.
Here, however this silly little thing ends up taking over
the whole story, and this is a very but very bad thing when it happens.
Blandina Franco writes children’s books. She found out that she wanted to write children’s book when
she was over 40 of age, and once she started, she never stopped anymore.
José Carlos Lollo illustrates children’s books. He is an awarded Art Director, who has worked for the
biggest advertising agencies in Brazil, and who found out that what he likes to do best is to illustrate
children’s books.
Blandina Franco and José Carlos Lollo, together, have published over thirty children’s books in the last
five years.
Full translation available in English.
Awards:
- Jabuti award for best children’s book (shortlisted twice
- Honorable Mention - Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award at the Bologna Fair (2012)
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PILAR’S DIARY OF AFRICA (Diário de Pilar na África)
Flávia Lins e Silva, illustrated by Joana Penna
Zahar, 2015
192 pages
After travelling through Greece, Amazonia, Egypt and Machu Picchu, now it’s
time for Pilar, Breno and their cat Samba to set off on the other side of the
Atlantic, in Africa! There they meet Fummi, a Yoruba princess, and together they
will try to save her family and her people, who have been captured by slave traders.
From Nigeria to Angola they cross forests, battle stormy seas in a small sailboat,
gallop through the dangerous savannah on a zebra, travel down the Congo
river alongside the powerful queen Jinga, and come face to face with slave ship
owners. In their fight for freedom and against injustice, Pilar and her friends
have unforgettable experiences.
Flávia Lins e Silva is a writer, scriptwriter,
documentary filmmaker and author of several
books for children and young people. She was
awarded the Best Young Person’s Book Prize
in 2010 by the FNLIJ for Mururu in the
Amazon. The series The Detectives from the
Blue Building, shares its name with the Gloob
channel’s TV programme.
Joana Penna studied design and illustration in Barcelona, and since then has illustrated a variety of books
and created many drawings of places where she has lived, namely London, Sri Lanka and New York.
Selected titles:
Mururu no Amazonas
Manati, 2010
Serbia: Carabina Knjiga
The Pilar Series:
Diário de Pilar na Grécia Poland: Skrzart
Zahar, 2010
Argentina and Mexico: Vergara & Riba
China: Shanghai Bbt Communication
France: Bayard
Germany: S. Fischer
Poland: Skrzart
Diário de Pilar na Amazônia
Zahar, 2011
Argentina and Mexico: Vergara & Riba
France: Bayard
Germany: S. Fischer
Diário de Pilar no Egito
Zahar, 2012
France: Bayard
Diário de Pilar em Machu Picchu
Zahar, 2014
France: Bayard
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A KNOT IN THE HEAD (Um nó na cabeça)
Rosa Amanda Strausz
FTD, 2011
50 pages
This is the story of Tico the sheep. While sheep are seen as symbols of
peacefulness and obedience, Tico behaves very differently from his flock.
Why is that? It so happens that most sheep have a warm and soft bunch
of wool inside their heads. These sheep are calm and never go against the
natural order of things. But Tico’s yarn is of a very knotted kind… And this
“knot in the head” doesn’t allow him to unquestionably follow his flock. In
this modern fable, the author invites the reader to reflect on a very important
and current subject – diversity.
Rosa Amanda Strausz, born in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, graduated in Journalism at the Federal University
of Rio de Janeiro. She was the editor of Doce de Letra, the first Brazilian website dedicated solely to
children’s literature, between 1997 and 2007. Her book Uólace e João Vitor was later adapted into the
TV series Cidade dos Homens (2002).
Full translation available in English.
Selected titles:
Uólace e João Victor (FTD, 1999)
- Best New Writer, by the National
Foundation of Children and YA Book
- Highly Recommended, by the National
Foundation of Children and YA Book
- João-de-Barro Prize
- Finalist of the Prix Tam-Tam
Minha mãe trouxe um lobo pra casa/A coleção de bruxas do meu pai (FTD, 1995)
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AUTHORS
FICTION
Adélia PRADO
Adriana LISBOA*
Adriana LUNARDI*
Alberto MARTINS
Alexandre VIDAL PORTO
Anna MONTEIRO
Antonio PRATA
Arthur DAPIEVE
Beatriz BRACHER
Carlos de BRITO E MELLO
Carlos Herculano LOPES
Cintia MOSCOVICH
Claudia TAJES
Cristovão TEZZA
Cristiane COSTA
Emilio FRAIA
Fernando SCHELLER
Flavio CAFIERO
Flávio CARNEIRO
Flávio IZHAKI
Giovana S. MADALOSSO
Henrique RODRIGUES
Ivana Arruda LEITE
João Luiz Anzanello
CARRASCOZA
José Luiz PASSOS*
Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI
Livia GARCIA-ROZA
Lucrécia ZAPPI
Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO
Lya LUFT
Lygia Fagundes TELLES
Marcelo FERRONI
Marcos PERES
Maria Adelaide AMARAL
Maria Valéria REZENDE
Moacyr SCLIAR*
Ondjaki*
Ricardo LÍSIAS
Rodrigo LACERDA
Rubem FONSECA*
Sérgio RODRIGUES
Tati BERNARDI
Tércia MONTENEGRO
Teresa CÁRDENAS
Tony BELLOTTO
Vanessa BARBARA
Vitor RAMIL
NONFICTION
Adriana CARRANCA
Aldo BIZZOCCHI
Barbara VEIGA
Carlos DOMINGOS
Ciça GUEDES
Dodô AZEVEDO
Dorrit HARAZIM
Eliane BRUM*
Elio GASPARI
Gladis BRUN
Karla MONTEIRO
Kledir RAMIL
Luiz Alberto HANNS
Luiz Eduardo SOARES
Malu GASPAR
Márcia ZOLADZ
Michelli PROVENSI
Murilo FIUZA
Pedro MARCONDES
Roberto DaMATTA
Teté RIBEIRO
Vicente de BRITTO PEREIRA
Zuenir VENTURA
CHILDREN’S/YA FICTION
Adriana FALCÃO
Anna Bella GEIGER
Carol SABAR
Cecília VASCONCELLOS
Elaine SAMUEL
Fernanda VERÍSSIMO
Flávia LINS E SILVA
Gisela DE CASTRO
Luiz Claudio CARDOSO
Marcelo PIRES
Marcio VASSALLO
Mariana VERÍSSIMO
Marina COLASANTI
Patrícia AUERBACH
Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ
Socorro ACIOLI
Suzana VARGAS
Sylvia ORTHOF
CLASSIC AUTHORS
Alcione ARAUJO
Ariano SUASSUNA
Augusto Frederico SCHMIDT
Caio Fernando ABREU
Carlos DRUMMOND DE
ANDRADE
Celso LUFT
Érico VERÍSSIMO
João CABRAL DE MELO
NETO
Jorge de LIMA
José Cândido de CARVALHO
Josué de CASTRO
Manoel de BARROS
Mª Julieta DRUMMOND DE
ANDRADE
Mario QUINTANA
MILLÔR Fernandes
Murilo MENDES
Oswald de ANDRADE
Otto Lara RESENDE
Paulo Emílio SALES GOMES
Paulo Mendes CAMPOS
Paulo RÓNAI
Rachel de QUEIROZ
Ricardo RAMOS
Sérgio PORTO
*only for Brazil

2015

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