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The Head of the Saint
Dreams of love come true when they're told to the right person... After walking for days across the harsh Brazilian landscape only to be rejected by his last living relative, Samuel finds his options for survival are dwindling fast - until he comes to the hollow head of a statue, perfect for a boy to crawl into and hide... Whilst sheltering, Samuel realises that he can hear the villagers' whispered prayers to Saint Anthony - confessing lost loves, hopes and fears - and he begins to wonder if he ought to help them out a little. When Samuel's advice hits the mark he becomes famous, and people flock to the town to hear about their future loves. But with all the fame comes some problems, and soon Samuel has more than just the lovelorn to deal with. A completely charming and magically told Brazilian tale, sure to capture your heart.
A Book of South & North American Writers
A Book of South & North American Writers,A-Z By CountryPublished on June 10, 2014 in USA
Translation, Adaptation and Digital Media
Adaptation has always been central to Translation Studies, and, as print media becomes less and less dominant, and new media become central to communication, Adaptation is more than ever a vital area of Translation and Translation Studies. In addition, links to new digital media are examined. This is the only user-friendly textbook covering the full area of Translation, Adaptation, and Digital Media applicable to any language combination. Divided into nine chapters, it includes a wide range of texts from Brazilian culture, ensuring an ex-centric view of translation. Each chapter contains an expository section, case studies, and student activities to support learning. It emphasises the central role of Adaptation in the translation of works for the popular book market, for theatre, cinema, radio, and, especially, the new media. This is the essential textbook for students in Translation and Adaptation Studies courses and instructors and professionals working on adaptation and transmedia projects.
Cyborg Saints
Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints...
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-fi...
In the Dark Spaces
Winner of the Ampersand Prize, IN THE DARK SPACES is a genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers. Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople - the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now - and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive. But survival always comes at a price, and there's no handbook for this hostage crisis. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, ...
Todo naufrágio é também um lugar de chegada
Não existe transformação possível se a travessia for serena. É o que parece nos dizer esta obra de Marco Severo que você pode estar prestes a ler. Em cada conto, em cada personagem, situações colocam o ser humano confrontado com o mundo à sua volta e consigo mesmo. Reunidas nestas vinte histórias estão o medo, a loucura, a infância amarga, a velhice decrépita, a desesperança, a morte. Mas não só, porque falar dessas coisas é também tratar do seu oposto. É assim que o leitor entrará em contato com a paz advinda do aprendizado amoroso, as descobertas dos muitos eus que nos habitam, o recomeço após perdas debilitantes, a esperança que não se perde nunca. São histórias ...
Sobre os felizes
Em Sobre os Felizes a escritora e jornalista Socorro Acioli nos leva a uma viagem pelo mundo a partir de suas vivencias compartilhadas em crônicas publicadas semanalmente no jornal O POVO ao longo dos últimos três anos.
O clube dos anjos (Nova edição)
Uma confraria de gourmets que não renuncia ao prazer da comida, ainda que isso possa significar sua própria morte. Um verdadeiro ensaio sobre a natureza humana, o clássico livro de Luis Fernando Verissimo é também uma insólita e bem-humorada celebração a um dos mais notórios pecados capitais: a gula. A história de um seleto grupo que, desde a juventude, se reúne para apreciar o prazer da gula em jantares luxuosos. Quando um misterioso cozinheiro aparece para reavivar os encontros da confraria, assassinatos começam a acontecer após cada refeição. E então o grupo entra numa espiral, em que a perspectiva da morte só aumenta o prazer da comida. O clube dos anjos, publicado origi...
Meu irmão, eu mesmo
Em 1992, João Silvério Trevisan descobriu-se infectado pelo vírus HIV, e acreditava que teria pouco tempo de vida. A tragédia, no entanto, atinge Cláudio, seu irmão mais novo. Vítima de um câncer linfático, ele falece aos 48 anos. Neste romance autobiográfico impactante, Trevisan aborda a intensa amizade entre ele e seu irmão, compondo um quadro de impressionante veracidade sobre a perda. Com uma narrativa poderosa e expressiva, Meu irmão, eu mesmo já nasce um livro fundamental de nossa literatura. Aqui, João Silvério Trevisan partilha com o público a experiência de amar e sobreviver até a última gota. Filho mais velho de uma família de baixa classe média do interior de ...
