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Cotidiano, Crime e Cultura
A obra focaliza as vivências dos diversos sujeitos que presenciaram as transformações ocorridas em Cachoeirinha e nos demais distritos e quarteirões rurais adjacentes, no município de Jaguariaíva, Paraná, entre os anos de 1920 e 1945. A análise da conjuntura que despertou tais transformações parte de uma ampla documentação pesquisada, como relatórios do governo e suas secretarias, leis e periódicos. Nesse âmbito, observa-se como a construção da Estrada de Ferro São Paulo-Rio Grande pela Brazil Railway, as explorações madeireira e fundiária da Southern Brazil Lumber e a produção papeleira iniciada pela The Oversea Company impactaram os modos de vida da população local...
A violência na Colônia: os crimes de sacrilégio no bispado de São Paulo - 1745-1800
A obra examina os crimes de sacrilégio por efusão de sangue cometidos no Bispado de São Paulo. Por que, apesar de um rígido controle que a Igreja tentava exercer sobre os fiéis, havia aqueles que cometiam crimes no espaço sagrado?
Imigração italiana na colônia de Antônio Prado - RS: catolicismo e sociabilidades (1885-1945)
A obra aborda a sociabilidade entre os imigrantes italianos e suas relações de poder com a Igreja Católica e o Estado Brasileiro entre os anos de 1885 e 1945 na colônia de Antônio Prado no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. A partir de 1885, os imigrantes italianos começaram a derrubar a mata para ocupar os espaços e os lugares da colônia, onde reproduziram as vilas de origem da Itália com uma arquitetura própria. O estudo busca examinar os conflitos surgidos durante a formação de uma nova identidade denominada "ítalo-brasileira" na colônia, constituída através da religião católica e do talian como língua de identificação cultural. Os imigrantes adaptaram as tradições e os costumes que trouxeram da Itália para o Brasil à nova realidade vivida na colônia, onde adquiriram características próprias da sociedade rural. A catolicidade e a italianidade dos imigrantes italianos na colônia se formaram e se desenvolveram nas Sociedades da Capela, as quais possibilitaram o surgimento de uma identidade local própria com base na tradição e nos valores familiares e comunitários.
Empty Wardrobes
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
Two Stories
Fiction. Translated by Jessica Sequera. The writing of the late Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940--1985) resists almost any attempt to characterize, let alone summarize. An iconoclastic figure of the Latin American literary milieu of the mid-to-late twentieth century, Lamborghini melded the baroque and the low-brow to often outrageous effect (Bolaño said he could only read a few pages of him at once). Rendered into English for the first time here are two long short stories, The Morning and Just Write Anything!, an accurate sample of his work in much the same way that a bucket of seawater is an accurate sample of the ocean.
The Last Children of Tokyo
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
Home Reading Service
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
Labyrinth
Notable International Crime Novel of the Year – Crime Reads / Lit Hub From a prize-winning Turkish novelist, a heady, political tale of one man’s search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory. A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no idea when. His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him down different paths. From the confusion of his social and individual memory, he is faced with two questions. Does physical recognition provide a sense of identity? Which is more liberating for a man, or a society: knowing the past, or forgetting it? Embroidered with Borgesian micro-stories, Labyrinth flows smoothly on the surface while traversing sharp bends beneath the current.
Minor Detail
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.
