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A bancada da Bíblia
O braço das igrejas evangélicas no Congresso é um dos mais poderosos atores da política brasileira. Deputados e senadores eleitos sob a égide do Evangelho têm sido cortejados por todos os presidentes desde a Assembleia Constituinte de 1987-8. Neste livro essencial para entender a política contemporânea, o jornalista André Ítalo Rocha, vencedor do Prêmio Todavia de Não Ficção, investiga as origens, o funcionamento e as singularidades da bancada evangélica, mergulhando nas histórias entrelaçadas da religião e do poder.
Monique se liberta
"Um quarto, um espaço, paredes, chave, dinheiro: cem anos depois, é também do que minha mãe precisava; não para se tornar escritora, mas para se tornar uma mulher mais livre e mais feliz. Woolf já havia entendido, cem anos antes, que a liberdade não é, em princípio, uma questão estética e simbólica, mas uma questão material e prática". Essa reflexão, que dá corpo à narrativa, parte de um telefonema de Monique, mãe do autor, que, depois de abandonar sua cidade operária do norte da França e seu casamento, vive em Paris com um novo companheiro. Aos 55 anos e mãe de cinco filhos, sem diploma de nível superior ou carteira de motorista, sem saber usar sequer um computador, Mo...
Bolsonaro e seus seguidores
O livro Bolsonaro e seus seguidores: o horror em 3.560 frases é um registro histórico dessa triste fase da política contemporânea brasileira. Para mim, a produção do livro representou um misto de cansaço mental com a expectativa positiva de colaborar com a disseminação de conhecimento para uma reflexão pública sobre o projeto político da extrema direita brasileira, que surge em linha com movimentos extremistas e intolerantes verificados em diversos países do mundo. Embora seja um livro de frases, proponho uma leitura para além delas. É preciso compreender a mensagem implícita. Lidas e interpretadas, cada uma delas, será possível perceber desconfortavelmente aonde chegamos. ...
The Lost Soul
A beautifully illustrated meditation on the fullness of life for readers of all ages by by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Olga Tokarczuk. "Olga Tokarczuk’s The Lost Soul, an experimental fable illustrated by Joanna Concejo and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, resonates with our current moment. . . . What a striking, and lovely, material object it is." —New York Times "The Lost Soul, by Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, is a quiet meditation on happiness, following a busy man who loses his soul. . . It pours a childlike sense of wonder into a once-upon-a-time tale that is already resonating with adults around the world." —The Guardian The Lost Soul is a deeply moving reflec...
The Third Book of Swords
The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy. More stories of the twelve Swords continue with The Lost Swords series. The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the death to acquire and retain the Swords. With the Swords, new ideas and new dreams have entered the world. A change is taking place that threats the gods' very existence.
The Book of Hidden Things
Four old friends confront their darkest secrets in this fantasy steeped in nostalgia, folklore, religion, and the seductive landscape of Southern Italy—by the Italian Neil Gaiman. “A tale of adventure, mystery, friendship and heart-wrenching beauty that will make you re-examine what is holy, what is true, and what is beyond the realm of possibility.” —BookPage Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town in Puglia they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and creator of the pact, insists that the agreement must remain unshakable and enduring. But this year, he never shows up. A visit to his house increases the friends’ worry: Art is f...
The First Book of Swords
Vulcan the god has a hard task to perform for his bored and restless colleagues — forge 12 magic Swords, quenched with human blood, and scatter them across the world. Each Sword possesses a different power. With them the gods will play a new, grand, and glorious Game. Mere humans foolishly striving for dominion, wealth and glory, are invited to risk their puny lives by joining in. (Later, the gods realize with horror that something has gone wrong in the forging, and with the Game. The Swords are much too powerful, controlling chance, enhancing fortune, changing destiny. And lethal even to their divine creators.) Jord the Smith, drafted to help Vulcan in his task, loses his right arm in the process (receiving the Sword Townsaver as pay). He is too weak to claim Mala, his bride-to-be, who joins a traditional fertility rite, where her partner might be the enigmatic Emperor, his face hidden by a leather mask. Nine months later, she gives birth to Mark. Thirteen years pass, then Townsaver wipes out a raiding party on orange-furred warbeasts, sent to Mark’s village. It falls to Mark to carry the blade away to hide or destroy it.
The Altering Eye
The Altering Eye covers a "golden age" of international cinema from the end of WWII through to the New German Cinema of the 1970s. Combining historical, political, and textual analysis, the author develops a pattern of cinematic invention and experimentation from neorealism through the modernist interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Maria Fassbinder, focusing along the way on such major figures as Luis Buñuel, Joseph Losey, the Brazilian director Glauber Rocha, and the work of major Cuban filmmakers. Kolker's book has become a much quoted classic in the field of film studies providing essential reading for anybody interested in understanding the history of European and international cinema. This new and revised edition includes a substantive new Preface by the author and an updated Bibliography.
Thirteenth Child
With wit and wonder, #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Wrede creates an alternate history of westward expansion in an amazing new trilogy about the use of magic in the Wild West.
The Gormenghast Novels
A doomed lord, an emergent hero, an array of bizarre creatures, and an ancient royal family plagued by madness and intrigue--these are the denizens of ancient, sprawling, tumbledown Gormenghast Castle. Within its vast halls and serpentine corridors, the members of the Groan dynasty and their master Lord Sepulchrave grow increasingly out of touch with a changing world as they pass their days in unending devotion to meaningless rituals and arcane traditions. Meanwhile, an ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike rises by devious means to the post of Master of the Ritual while he maneuvers to bring down the Groans.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream: lush, fantastical, vivid; a symbol of dark struggle. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange creatures that inhibit Gormenghast.Breathtaking in its power and drenched in dark atmosphere, humor and intrigue, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a classic, one of the great works of 20th century British literature.
