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Crow Blue
I was thirteen. Being thirteen is like being in the middle of nowhere. Which was accentuated by the fact that I was in the middle of nowhere. In a house that wasn't mine. in a city that wasn't mine, in a country that wasn't mine, with a one-man family that, in spite of the intersections and intentions (all very good), wasn't mine. When her mother dies, thirteen-year-old Vanja is left with no family and no sense of who she is, where she belongs, and what she should do. Determined to find her biological father to fill the void that has so suddenly appeared in her life, Vanja decides to leave Rio de Janeiro to live in Colorado with her stepfather, a former guerrilla notorious for his violent past. From there she goes in search of her biological father, tracing her mother's footsteps and gradually discovering the truth about herself. Rendered in lyrical and passionate prose, Crow Blue is a literary road trip through Brazil and America, and through dark decades of family and political history.
Symphony in White
"Tells the story of two sisters, Clarice and Maria Inês, raised in rural Brazil in the 1960s and educated in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. Also presenting the perspectives of men they have loved, men they married, and the girls' parents, past events are revealed that help to explain how the two sisters' lives unfold"--Provided by publisher.
Os grandes carnívoros
Entre idas e vindas temporais, Adriana Lisboa conduz o leitor a habitar os pensamentos em desassossego de Adelaide, uma ex-presidiária e ativista pelos direitos dos animais que se vê diante da brutalidade das relações humanas. Adelaide integrou um grupo de ativistas dos direitos animais e acabou se envolvendo numa ação extrema de protesto, incendiando um laboratório de pesquisas nos Estados Unidos. Depois de três anos presa, ela volta ao Brasil. À procura de um recomeço, muda-se para uma pequena cidade na região serrana do Rio, onde conhece Rai — o gentil proprietário da casa mobiliada que aluga –– e sua família. Ao intercalar a jornada da ativista e as incertezas que se f...
Hut of Fallen Persimmons
"A journey to Japan seen through the eyes of two Brazilians: Haruki and Celina. Through a counterpoint of narration and text, and with reference to haiku by seventeenth-century master Matsuo Bashō, the pair's losses and struggles unfold"--Provided by publisher.
Night Train To Lisbon
A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man's escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spontaneity. Night Train to Lisbon tells the story of mild-mannered, middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius. When, one afternoon, he walks out of his class while in the middle of giving a lesson, his uncharacteristic impulsiveness surprises him as much as his students. This break from his usually predictable routine is driven by two chance encounters that morning on his way to work - the first with a mysterious Portuguese woman, and the second with a book discovered in a forgotten corner of...
Creative Transformations
In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas, Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history, translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages, interactions with Spanish Americans, and negotiations of complex identities. While Creative Transformations engages extensively with theories of translation from different national and disciplinary contexts, it also constructs a vision of translation uniquely attuned to the place of Brazil in the Americas. Brune reveals the hemispheric underpinnings of works by renowned Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Sousândrade, Mário de Andrade, Silviano Santiago, and Adriana Lisboa. In the process, she rethinks the dynamics between cosmopolitan and national desires and between center and periphery in global literary markets.
Sinfonia em branco
Duas irmãs, filhas de um fazendeiro fluminense, são as figuras centrais deste romance, que desvenda o horror e a poesia da vida com rara sensibilidade. Publicado originalmente em 2001 e vencedor do Prêmio José Saramago, Sinfonia em branco foi também finalista do Prix des Lectrices da edição francesa da revista Elle. Com passagens de grande força poética, Adriana Lisboa narra, numa sequência não cronológica, a história destas irmãs. Clarice, a mais velha, sempre esteve fadada a se casar com o filho do dono da fazenda vizinha, enquanto Maria Inês, a mais nova, acaba por se tornar testemunha pueril e estarrecida de um abuso que dilaceraria a vida da irmã. O silêncio, o interdito, o segredo dão o tom a essa sinfonia. Afonso Olímpio, o pai, vaga como uma sombra enigmática e taciturna, enquanto a mulher, a impotente Otacília, vai se dando conta de sua infelicidade, e tenta resgatar as filhas da desgraça silenciosa, cada vez mais difícil de escapar. Com o tempo, tudo vai se encaminhando não exatamente para um desfecho ou uma "cura", mas para possibilidades que se abrem. É com a maturidade que elas se dão conta de que é preciso superar o passado.
Todos os santos
Numa mescla de passado e presente, em meio a um Rio de Janeiro mítico e uma Nova Zelândia misteriosa, Adriana Lisboa constrói um romance brilhante sobre arrependimento e perda. Vanessa e André estão eternamente ligados por uma perda irreparável na infância. Num feriado à beira da piscina, o irmão mais novo de Vanessa, e melhor amigo de André, sofre um choque dentro d'água e morre antes que alguém possa ajudá-lo. Unidos pelo acidente, Vanessa e André iniciam uma relação que logo ultrapassa a amizade. As famílias se esfacelam e transformam, mas eles permanecem juntos. Agora, vivendo na Nova Zelândia como bióloga, Vanessa procura entender o que aconteceu com o irmão e sua família. Procura também refazer sua história de amor com André, cercada de culpa e de segredos. Com uma linguagem poética e precisa, Adriana Lisboa tece uma narrativa que viaja entre passado e presente, entre as águas da baía de Guanabara e do rio Manawatū, para falar da perda, mas também do perdão.
Coffee
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world but how does the production influence chemistry and quality? This book covers coffee production, quality and chemistry from the plant to the cup. Written by an international collection of contributors in the field who concentrate on coffee research, it is edited expertly to ensure quality of content, consistency and organization across the chapters. Aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers and accompanied by a sister volume covering how health is influenced by the consumption of coffee, these titles provide an impactful and accessible guide to the current research in the field.
