Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. When Ciccio fi
From one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power and the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. and leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or
An uproarious novel about a man’s often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brotherMy German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque’s attempt to recons
An uproarious novel about a man’s often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brotherIn 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house
The bracing debut novel from renowned Brazilian film star Fernanda Torres that tells the story of five aging male friends reflecting on their days of hedonism in Rio’s Copacabana, and the hilariously
From one of Brazil’s most acclaimed young novelists, the mesmerizing story of a troubled young man’s violent struggle with his family’s pastA young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the
Fuzz McFlops is one of the most famous rabbit-writers in the land, but ever since his classmates teased him about his lopsided ears at school he's lead a lonely life, writing sad stories such as The W
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, i
The renowned Brazilian author of Turbulence presents a multigenerational saga of loss and longing that follows a dying patriarch's rambling monologue to his daughter and nurses about his youth on a we
An extraordinary account of a common human drama—the birth and parenting of a disabled child—investigated profoundly by a father who is a gifted writer
From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and pa
Perhaps Brazil’s most influential and beloved composer and musician, Chico Buarque is also a highly praised poet, playwright, and novelist. In Budapest, Buarque introduces the story of a ghostwriter w
From one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian Novelists comes a startling and powerful story about returning to one’s origins in order to move forward.In Rio de Janeiro, a woman suffering from a mysteriou
The worldwide classic 'I've always thought of Zezé as a younger Holden Caulfield, and like The Catcher in the Rye this is a book that once read is never forgotten' Burhan Sönmez (Turkey) Meet Zezé - B
Who was the enigma the world knows as Christopher Columbus . . . and why has his true identity been covered up for centuries? When an aged scholar is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room, Thom
Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented roo
