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The Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist'Book summary:PAULO COELHO'S enchanted novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicityand inspired wisdom . is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egiptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.... [via]
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- The Alchemist: ISBN 0061122416 (0-06-112241-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Alchemist: ISBN 0062502182 (0-06-250218-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Alchemist: ISBN 0060887966 (0-06-088796-6)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco - The Alchemist: ISBN 0613334582 (0-613-33458-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Alchemist: ISBN 0783811950 (0-7838-1195-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - The Alchemist: ISBN 0060834838 (0-06-083483-8)
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- The Alchemist: ISBN 0061122416 (0-06-112241-6)
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The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dreamby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. ClarkeISBN 0062502174 (0-06-250217-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemist/a Fable About Following Your Dream'Book summary:Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson [via]
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Brazilby John UpdikeISBN 0449911632 (0-449-91163-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brazil'Book summary:They meet by chance on Copacabana Beach: Tristao Raposo, a poor black teen from the Rio slums, surviving day to day on street smarts and the hustle, and Isabel Leme, an upper-class white girl, treated like a pampered slave by her absent though very powerful father. Convinced that fate brought them together, betrayed by families who threaten to tear them apart, Tristao and Isabel flee to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west -- unaware of the astonishing destiny that awaits them . . .
Spanning twenty-two years, from the mid-sixties to the late eighties, BRAZIL surprises and embraces the reader with its celebration of passion, loyalty, and New World innocence.
"A tour de force . . . Spectacular." -- Time
"Updike's novel, as tender as it is erotic, becomes a magnificently wrought love story . . . . Beautifully written." -- Detroit Free Press
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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politicsby Robert M. Levine, John J. CrocittiISBN 0822322900 (0-8223-2290-0)
Softcover, Duke University Press
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Brazilian Adventureby Peter FlemingISBN 081016065X (0-8101-6065-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Brazilian Steam Album: Out Beyond the Cityby C. SmallISBN 0912113391 (0-912113-39-1)
Softcover, Railhead Pubns
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesusby Carolina Maria De JesusISBN 0451627318 (0-451-62731-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus'Book summary:The powerful firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.[via]
Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine
Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair
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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesusby David St. Clair, Carolina Maria De JesusISBN 0451529103 (0-451-52910-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissionsby Peter RobbISBN 0312424876 (0-312-42487-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Death In Brazil: A Book Of Omissions'Book summary:Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the author of Midnight in Sicily delves into the past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth[via]
From his own near murder in Rio at the hands of an intruder twenty years ago and continuing through the recent slaying of a former president's bagman who looted the country of more than a billion dollars, violent death poses a steady threat in Peter Robb's brilliant travelogue through modern-day Brazil. It's not death, however, that leaves a lasting impression but the exuberant life force that emanates from the country and its people.
Seeking to understand how extreme danger and passion can coexist in a nation for centuries, Robb travels from the cobalt blue shores of southern Brazil to the arid mountains of the northeast recounting four centuries of Brazilian history from the days of slavery to the recent election of the country's first working-class president. Much more than a journey through history, Robb renders in vivid detail the intoxicating pleasures of the food, music, and climate of the country and references the work of Brazil's greatest writers to depict a culture unlike any other.
With a stunning prose style and an endlessly inquisitive intellect, Robb builds layer upon layer of history, culture, and personal reminiscence into a deeply personal, impressionistic portrait of a nation. The reader emerges from A Death in Brazil not just with more knowledge about the country but with a sense of having experienced it and with a deep understanding of its turbulent soul.More editions of A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions:
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazilby Nancy Scheper-HughesISBN 0520075374 (0-520-07537-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil'Book summary:When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? when assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? set in the lands of northeast brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of bom jesus de mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. The author also wrote "saints, scholars and schizophrenics: mental illness in rural ireland [via]
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Dom Casmurroby Joaquim Maria MacHado De Assis, John A. GledsonISBN 0195103092 (0-19-510309-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dom Casmurro'Book summary:The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.
Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work. [via]
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Dom Casmurroby John A. Gledson, MacHado De AssisISBN 0195103084 (0-19-510308-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dom Casmurro'Book summary:The unreliable narrator and the fictional memoir are long-standing literary traditions. Nineteenth-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis uses both to brilliant effect in his novel Dom Casmurro. Narrated by Bento Santiago, this memoir looks back over a life filled with the suspicion of betrayal: Bento is convinced that his wife had an affair with his best friend, and that his son was the result of it. Though he has no real evidence to support this belief, Bento becomes so obsessed with it that, in the end, he commits crimes far worse than the suspected adultery to avenge himself. The memoir itself is a kind of justification for his actions; Bento, now alone, recreates the environment of his childhood and attempts to rewrite the facts of his life--in essence, reconstructing the past.
Among readers familiar with Latin American literature, Machado is considered a master. His novels blend black comedy with deadly accurate social commentary and an unerring perception of human psychology to create works that are brilliant, complex without being opaque, and joys to read. The Oxford University Press edition is ably translated by John Gledson and accompanied by critical essays that will help orient readers unfamiliar with Machado's work. [via]
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Dom Casmurroby R.L. Scott-Buccleuch, MacHado De AssisISBN 0140446125 (0-14-044612-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbandsby Jorge AmadoISBN 1852421037 (1-85242-103-7)
Hardcover, Serpent's Tail
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'Book summary:It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraesa gambler notorious for never winningdies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to a kind pharmacist who is everything Vadinho was not, and is altogether happy to marry him. But after her wedding she finds herself dreaming about her first husbands amorous attentions; and one evening Vadinho himself appears by her bed, as lusty as ever, to claim his marital rights. [via]
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- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: ISBN 0307276643 (0-307-27664-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: ISBN 0380017962 (0-380-01796-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: ISBN 038075469X (0-380-75469-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: ISBN 1852421037 (1-85242-103-7)
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- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: ISBN 0307276643 (0-307-27664-3)
El Alquimistaby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9700508609 (970-05-0860-9)
Softcover, Giron Spanish Books Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 9685957843 (968-5957-84-3)
Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Eleven Minutesby Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0060589280 (0-06-058928-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleven Minutes'Book summary:Paulo Coelho's astonishingly beautiful writing in Eleven Minutes virtually guarantees it the cult status that The Alchemist already enjoys. But what is the Paulo Coelho phenomenon? How can an author who (only a short time ago) was virtually unknown to most readers have taken the world of books by storm--and without the benefit of glitzy advertising? The answer is simple: quality. Such books as The Fifth Mountain andThe Devil and Miss Prym are enough to explain a considerable following for the author, with their atmospheric prose and involving characters.
Eleven Minutes tells the story of young Maria living an innocent life in a Brazilian village and is played out in a measured fashion, but with all the author's brilliant scene-setting (very lush here) fully in place. But then Maria experiences love and suffers great pain. From this point, Coelho has us inexorably in his grip. Maria's disillusionment with love leads her to Geneva where she finally ends up selling her body (Coelho may offer us the beauty of life, but never at the expense of its harshness). Maria's approach to sex is complex--this is no mere revulsion arising from what she is now doing with her life. And then she meets a seductive young painter, who may or may not offer her a new path in life. But does she prefer to continue on the dark sexual odyssey she has embarked on, at the expense of real love?
There are echoes of DH Lawrence in Coelho's exploration of the sacred and spiritual aspects of sex and it's a brave author who tackles a subject that can so easily slip into strained seriousness. That never happens here, and Maria's journey is one that the reader willingly undertakes; the lesson she learns are lessons for the reader. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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Epitaph of a Small Winnerby Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Susan Sontag, William L. GrossmanISBN 0374521921 (0-374-52192-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epitaph of a Small Winner'Book summary:I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing. So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Sterns Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.[via]More editions of Epitaph of a Small Winner:
Futebol: Soccer, the Brazilian Wayby Alex BellosISBN 0756785030 (0-7567-8503-0)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Futebol: The Brazilian Wayby Alex BellosISBN 1582342504 (1-58234-250-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Lifeby Alex BellosISBN 1582342873 (1-58234-287-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Gabriela Clavo Y Canelaby Jorge AmadoISBN 9500340534 (950-03-4053-4)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela Clavo Y Canela'Book summary:La clásica historia de amor prohibido de la literatura latinoamericana.
En 1925, la riqueza producida por el cacao ha permitido el desarrollo económico de Ilheús, pero la costumbres de sus habitantes todavía son primitivas y violentas. En este pueblo, el árabe Nacib Saad, desesperado al perder al cocinero de su popular café, contrata a la bella mulata Gabriela que, para su sorpresa, resultará ser no sólo una gran cocinera sino un encantador beneficio para su negocio. Pero, ¿qué diría la gente si Nacib se casara con ella?
Gabriela perdurará en la literatura como una hermosa figura femenina, simple y espontánea, mas allá del bien y del mal. Con su lirismo inigualable, Jorge Amado ha transmitido al personaje las cualidades típicas del pueblo brasileño: ternura, sensualidad sin malicia, alegría envolvente, feliz primitivismo. Y el romance conmovedor de Nacib y Gabriela se ubicará, sin duda, en la galería de los amantes célebres de la historia de la literatura. [via]More editions of Gabriela Clavo Y Canela:
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Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamonby Jorge Amado, James L. Taylor, William L. GrossmanISBN 0307276651 (0-307-27665-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon'Book summary:One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of IlhÉus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl. The savvy young woman quickly proves to be an excellent chef and--once well-scrubbed and decently dressed--an eye-catching beauty. Nacib quickly finds himself the owner of the most prosperous business in town--and the employer of its most sought-after woman. One bright spring day in 1925, Gabriela arrives from the poverty-stricken backwoods of Brazil to the lively seaside port of IlhEus amid a flock of filthy migrant workers. Though wearing rags and covered in dirt, she attracts the attention of Nacib, a cafe owner, who is in desperate need of a new cook. So dire is his situation that he hires the disheveled girl. The savvy young woman quickly proves to be an excellent chef and --once well-scrubbed and decently dressed--an eye-catching beauty. Nacib quickly finds himself the owner of the most prosperous business in town--and the employer of its most sought-after woman. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon: ISBN 0394425979 (0-394-42597-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon: ISBN 0307276651 (0-307-27665-1)
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- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon: ISBN 0380012057 (0-380-01205-7)
The Golden Age of Brazil: Growing Pains of a Colonial Society, 1695-1750by C.R. BoxerISBN 0312126395 (0-312-12639-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695-1750: Growing Pains of a Colonial Societyby Charles Ralph BoxerISBN 0520015509 (0-520-01550-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A History of Brazilby E. Bradford BurnsISBN 0231079559 (0-231-07955-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Home Is the Sailorby Jorge AmadoISBN 0380754746 (0-380-75474-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Home Is the Sailor'Book summary:A humorous novel set in a sleepy Brazilian beach resort. When Captain Vasco Moscosco de Aragao arrives, the townspeople are enthralled by his talk of exotic romances and travel tales. Amado has written over 20 novels, including "The Violent Land" and "Shepherds of the Night". [via]
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The Hour of the Starby Clarice LispectorISBN 0811211908 (0-8112-1190-8)
Softcover, New Directions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hour of the Star'Book summary:The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narratoredge of despair to edge of despairand, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed. [via]More editions of The Hour of the Star:
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The Illustrated Alchemistby Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke, MoebiusISBN 006019250X (0-06-019250-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Alchemist'Book summary:Amazon.co.uk Review Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." [via]
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Journey to the River Seaby Eva Ibbotson, Kevin HawkesISBN 0525467394 (0-525-46739-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the River Sea'Book summary:With the memorable characters and plot twists she brings to her best-selling fantasies, Eva Ibbotson has written a hair-raising novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil. Maia, an orphan, is sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation in South America. The brave, curious girl and her fierce but kind governess arrive in their new home, each with secret hopes of adventure. These are immediately quashed by the Carters, who hate their adopted land and its inhabitants. They are obsessed with re-creating England in the forest, right down to the watery puddings. It is only through friendship with a mysterious Indian boy who just might be the heir to a large fortune and a runaway child actor who specializes in Little Lord Fauntleroy that Maia and Miss Minton, her governess, find the excitement they longed for: an unexpected expedition into the heart of the Amazon, in search of a lost tribe and the legendary giant sloth. [via]
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LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundoby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 8466310681 (84-663-1068-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo'Book summary:Deep within the remote backlands of 19th century Brazil sits Canudos, a libertarians paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, and beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and mans struggle to be free. It is an exhaustively documented account of a historical event and a fundamental book in 20th century literature.
Description in Spanish:A finales del siglo XX, en las tierras paupérrimas del noreste de Brasil, el chispazo de las arengas del Consejero, personaje mesiánico y enigmático, prenderá la insurrección de los desheredados. En circunstancias extremas como aquéllas, la consecución de la dignidad vital sólo podrá venir de la exaltación religiosa - el convencimiento fanático de la elección divina de los marginados del mundo- y del quebranto radical de las reglas que rigen el mundo de los poderosos.
Así, grupos de miserables acudirán a la llamada de la revolución de Canudos, la cuidad donde se asentará esta comunidad de personajes que difícilmente desaparecerán de la imaginación del lector: el Beatito, el León de Natuba, María Quadrado..
Frente a todos ellos, una trama político- militar se articula para detener con toda su fuerza el movimiento que amenaza con expandirse. [via]
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- LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 8432203955 (84-322-0395-5)
Softcover, Seix Barral - LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 968190799X (968-19-0799-X)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc - LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 8432203963 (84-322-0396-3)
Hardcover, Seix Barral - LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 980276129X (980-276-129-X)
Hardcover, Biblioteca Ayacucho - LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 8466310681 (84-663-1068-1)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
- LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo: ISBN 8432203955 (84-322-0395-5)
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LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo the Warby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 8432230499 (84-322-3049-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo the War'Book summary:El centro de La guerra del fin del mundo es un hecho histórico: la insurrección popular, de signo religioso, paradójicamente a la vez revolucionaria y reaccionaria, que se produjo a fines del siglo XIX en las tierras del Nordeste, en el Brasil. El eje de la obra, la espoleta del conflicto es un personaje fanatizado, un enigma eremítico: el Consejero, mostrado siempre en forma alusiva y oblicua, como una especie de cristalización esquinada y adusta del desamparo y el orgullo de unas gentes desheredadas. A la acción del Consejero, que crea, desde mínimos grupúsculos iniciales, una vasta sublevación, se contraponen otros personajes, ya individualizados, ya vistos como vehículos de intereses o ideales contrapuestos: la vieja aristocracia feudal y legitimista, los políticos que entretejen una malla de dobles tramas, la milicia profesional y, en calidad de testigos, dos seres solitarios, un frenólogo idealista adscrito a las ideas libertarias y un periodista que, como intelectual, sólo podrá rescatar su experiencia narrándola algún día por escrito. Construida con tanta precisión y belleza como una pieza musical, segura en el complejísimo trazado de las acciones bélicas, nítida en la limpidez de un estilo bruñido y casi invisible, La guerra del fin del mundo es a un tiempo un apasionante fresco de aventuras, una soberbia reconstrucción histórica y una pieza literaria sabiamente trabada, en la que culmina la excepcional trayectoria de Mario Vargas Llosa. [via]
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Memorias Postumas De Bras Cubasby MacHado De AssisISBN 0850515025 (0-85051-502-5)
Softcover, Luso Brazilian Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memorias Postumas De Bras Cubas'Book summary:One of the greatest novels of Brazilian Literature, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas is narrated by a dead man who recounts the amorous misadventures of his unheroic life and explains his half-hearted political ambitions. While it is considered the first novel of Brazilian realism, its quirks seem refreshingly modern and make it unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. [via]
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Once Minutos / Eleven Minutesby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0060591838 (0-06-059183-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Once Minutos / Eleven Minutes'Book summary:Una novela cautivadora y audaz del autor de El Alquimista, bestseller con m&aaucute;s de un millón de ejemplares vendidos. En este nuevo relato, el novelista explora con gran sensibilidad la naturaleza sagrada del sexo y del amor y nos invita a enfrentar nuestros propios prejuicios y demonios.
Once Minutos relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor le dejan con el corazón destrozado. A su tierna edad, se convence de que jamás hallará el amor verdadero; al contrario, considera que "El amor es algo horrible que produce sufrimiento." Un encuentro casual en Río la lleva a Ginebra, donde sueña con conseguir fama y fortuna. Sin embargo, termina trabajando de prostituta.
En Ginebra, la opinión desesperanzada que María tiene del amor, se pone a prueba al conocer a un apuesto joven pintor. En esta odisea de descubrimiento personal, María debe elegir entre recorrer el camino de la oscuridad, el del sexo por el sexo mismo, o arriesgarlo todo para descubrir su propia "luz interior" y las posibilidad del sexo sagrado, es decir, del sexo dentro del contexto del amor.
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubasby Gregory Rabassa, Joaquim Maria MacHado De AssisISBN 0195101693 (0-19-510169-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas'Book summary:Fans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press's new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is written as an autobiography, a chronicle of the erotic misadventures of its narrator, Brás Cubas--who happens to be dead. In pursuit of love and progeny, Cubas rejects the women who want him and aspires to the ones who reject him. In the end, he dies unloved and without heirs, yet he somehow manages to turn this bitter pill into a victory of sorts. What makes Memoirs stand up 100 years after the book was written is Machado's biting humor, brilliant prose, and profound understanding of all the vagaries of human behavior. [via]
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubasby Joaquim Maria MacHado De Assis, Gregory RabassaISBN 0195101707 (0-19-510170-7)
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Quincas Borbaby Joaquim Maria MacHado De AssisISBN 085051519X (0-85051-519-X)
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journeyby CANDICE MILLARDISBN 0767913736 (0-7679-1373-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey'Book summary:At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelts harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubtit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazils most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.
Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelts life, here is Candice Millards dazzling debut. [via]More editions of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey:
Teresa Batista Cansada De Guerraby J. AmadoISBN 9500340585 (950-03-4058-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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Tristes Tropiquesby Claude Levi-StraussISBN 0671458507 (0-671-45850-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tristes Tropiques'Book summary:"I hate travelling and explorers," famously declared Claude Lévi-Strauss, but how fortunate for readers that he should overcome his loathing to write about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian interior, including the Caduveo, Bororo, and Nambikwara tribes. Those who know Lévi-Strauss and Tristes Tropiques by reputation only will be pleasantly surprised by the intimate tone that colors even its most precise anthropological sections, as well as the autobiographical passages at the beginning, in which the author recounts how he fell into his career and how, shortly after the Nazis occupied Paris, he was forced to flee to America in a grueling sea voyage. Twenty-five black-and-white photographs of tribespeople, as well as numerous line drawings, accompany the text. [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Tristes Tropiques: ISBN 068910572X (0-689-10572-X)
Hardcover, Atheneum - Tristes Tropiques: ISBN 2266013947 (2-266-01394-7)
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Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazilby Barbara Einzig, Caetano VelosoISBN 0306812819 (0-306-81281-9)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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Tropical Truth : A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazilby Caetano Veloso, Isabel De Sena, Barbara EinzigISBN 037540788X (0-375-40788-X)
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The Viceroy of Ouidahby Bruce ChatwinISBN 0671412531 (0-671-41253-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The War of the Saintsby Gregory Rabassa, Jorge AmadoISBN 0553374400 (0-553-37440-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The War of the Saintsby Jorge Amado, Gregory RabassaISBN 0553095374 (0-553-09537-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Yanomamoby Napoleon A. ChagnonISBN 0155053272 (0-15-505327-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yanomamo'Book summary:Part of the highly respected "Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology" series, this ethnography describes the culture and lives of the Yanomamo of South America. [via]
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Yanomamo, the Fierce Peopleby Napoleon A. ChagnonISBN 0030328195 (0-03-032819-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yanomamo: The Fierce People'Book summary:Description: xiv, 142 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Yanomamo Indians. Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology. [via]
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El Alquimistaby Paulo CoehloISBN 9700513866 (970-05-1386-6)
Softcover, Downtown Book Center Inc
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El Alquimista / The Alchemistby Paulo CoelhoISBN 0062511408 (0-06-251140-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Alquimista / The Alchemist'Book summary:La mÁgica historia de Paulo Coelho, que trata sobre Santiago, un niÑo pastor andaluz que viaja en busca de un tesoro material, nos enseÑa la importancia que tiene el saber eschuchar lo que nos dice el corazÓn, a aprender a leer los presagios dispersados por el camino de nuestras vidas y, sobre todo, a seguir nuestros sueÑos.
El Alquimista, ahora por primera vez disponible en EspaÑa en Norte America, ha sido aclamado en EspaÑa y en America Latina como una de las novelas mas importantes de la dÉcada.
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Dona Flor y sus dos maridosby Jorge AmadoISBN 9681322118 (968-13-2211-8)
Softcover, Diana/Mexico
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Gabriela, Clavo y Canelaby Jorge Amado, Dante HermoISBN 8476695810 (84-7669-581-0)
Hardcover, Aleph Editores
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LA Guerra Del Fin Del Mundoby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 8401380014 (84-01-38001-4)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns Inc
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La Guerra Del Fin Del Mundo/ the War of the End of the Worldby Mario Vargas LlosaISBN 9707705213 (970-770-521-3)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Memorias Postumas De Bras Cubas/ the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubasby Joaquin Maria Machado De AssisISBN 950515190X (950-515-190-X)
Softcover, De LA Flor S.R.L. Ediciones
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Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridosby Jorge AmadoISBN 8501005525 (85-01-00552-5)
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O Sumico Da Santa: Uma Historia De Feiticaria Romance Baianoby Jorge AmadoISBN 8510344477 (85-10-34447-7)
Hardcover, Editora Record
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Onze Minutosby Paulo CoelhoISBN 8532515363 (85-325-1536-3)
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Verdade Tropicalby Caetano VelosoISBN 8571647127 (85-7164-712-7)
Hardcover, Companhia das Letras
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De Gaulle 1944: Victoire De La Legitimiteby Rene HostacheISBN 2259003591 (2-259-00359-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Gaulle 1944: Victoire De La Legitimite'Book summary:"Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs" : la première phrase de Tristes tropiques donne le ton. Claude Lévi-Strauss, philosophe de formation, n'est ni un marchand d'exotisme ni un amateur d'anecdotes ; la longue confession qu'il nous livre ici relate l'histoire d'une conversion à l'ethnologie. Quelle est cette étrange passion pour l'altérité qui pousse un jeune homme, tout frais émoulu de l'université, à abandonner son "chez soi" pour aller s'immerger dans celui des autres ? Au-delà des pittoresques récits de voyages au Brésil mais aussi aux Antilles et en Asie, les chapitres sont hantés par cette interrogation sur l'exil volontaire et sur la solitude du voyageur au milieu d'autres peuples.
Réflexion sur le pouvoir et l'écriture, sur l'irréversibilité du temps qui emporte avec lui, aidé par l'Occident, des civilisations entières, sur le dur métier d'ethnologue... le domaine d'investigation de l'ouvrage est vaste. Le regard de Lévi-Strauss est sans concession mais jamais désabusé ni amer. La passion pour la vérité fait la force de l'explorateur intérieur. --Emilio Balturi [via]
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L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democratiesby Michel CollinISBN 2910188132 (2-910188-13-2)
Hardcover, Editions A. Carriere
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'effet Pervers: Le Naufrage Des Democraties'Book summary:253pages. 13,1cm x 20,6cm x 2,1cm. Broché. L'Alchimiste est le récit d'une quête, celle de Santiago, un jeune berger andalou parti à la recherche d'un trésor enfoui au pied des Pyramides. Dans le désert, initié par l'Alchimiste, il apprendra à écouter son coeur, à lire les signes du destin et, par-dessus tout, à aller au bout de son rêve. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en soi, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique, que l'on compare souvent au Petit Prince, de Saint-Exupéry, et à Jonathan Livingston le Goéland, de Richard Bach. Le levant s'était mis à souffler. Il amenait les Maures sans doute, mais il apportait aussi l'odeur du désert. Il apportait la sueur et les songes des hommes qui étaient partis en quête de l'Inconnu, en quête d'or, d'aventures, et de pyramides. Alors le jeune berger andalou se prit à envier la liberté du vent et comprit qu'il pourrait, comme lui, traverser les pays et trouver sa Légende personnelle. Destiné à l'enfant que chaque être cache en lui, L'Alchimiste est un merveilleux conte philosophique qui nous guide sur la voie d'un trésor oublié. Et des terres noires andalouses aux mystères de l'Egypte, déchiffrant les augures du ciel, le lecteur trouvera lui aussi le secret de l'Alchimie. [via]
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Rouge Bresil: Romanby Jean-Christophe RufinISBN 2070761983 (2-07-076198-3)
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