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CLARICE’S SECRET (QUE MISTÉRIOS TEM CLARICE)
Sergio ABRANCHES
A relatively successful writer, she teaches literature and creative writing at the university. Happy,
open-minded, a divorced mother of a young couple, both professionally well established. When her
doctor tells her she has a terminal cancer condition, she writes to her son, Jorge, and her daughter,
Marina, and starts arranging for her departure, as if she were to leave the country for a long while.
She reads the books she loves most, listens to music, spends time with her son and daughter, very
quietly, uncomplaining, but her memories are betraying her calm. She starts to remember a child she
had forgotten, a stranger that keeps invading her memories and recalling sins and secrets best left
buried. Now she has to deal with them for the last time, but decides to keep this hidden past away
from Jorge and Marina. After her death, it is their turn to look for them. Following the faint tracks
Clarice left of her secret, they find out more than they wanted to know about their mother’s role in
the recent history of their country and why she always insisted on the relativity of truth.
Publication/Status: To come out from Editora Globo (Brazil), in November, 2014.
Previous title
The Dark Fur of Fear (O pelo negro do medo), published by Record (Brazil), in 2012.
THE AUTHOR
A political scientist with a PhD from Cornell University, Sergio Abranches has
a daily op-ed commentary on the Brazilian all-news radio network CBN on
Ecopolitics. He cofounded O Eco, an environmental news agency dedicated to
training young journalists to report on environmental themes and to facilitate
the dialogue between scientists and journalists, with support from Avina and
Hewlett Foundation. In 2010, he published Copenhagen: before and after, a
journalistic account of the Copenhagen summit on climate change and global
climate change politics. His story on the Muriquis (Brazilian spider monkeys),
primates of the Atlantic rainforest, co-authored with Miriam Leitão, was awarded the SOS Mata
Atlântica prize for environmental journalism. Besides his two novels, he has published a short story
book as well.
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ENIGMAS OF SPRING (ENIGMAS DA PRIMAVERA)
João ALMINO
Enigmas of Spring tells a beautiful and well-crafted story that takes place between 2011 and 2013,
excelling in its language and skillful dialogue and in the fresh voice of a 20-year-old Brazilian
who journeys from Brasilia to Madrid and Granada while facing the dilemmas and tensions of
the contemporary world, the role of virtual realities, solitude, and the fragility of social relations.
A combination of fiction and reality, memory and imagination, the tale focuses on the crises of the
Arab world, Islam in its various expressions, and the themes of tolerance and intolerance, while
revisiting an older story, that of the Arab Sultanate of Granada. At its center lie the various youth
rebellions, including those of the Arabs, the “indignados”, and the Brazilian demonstrations in
June, 2013.
Publication/Status: Sold to Dalkey Archive Press (USA). On submission in Brazil.
Previous titles
Free City (Cidade livre), published by Record (Brazil) in 2010; Métailié (France), under the title Hôtel
Brasilia, in 2012; and Dalkey Archive Press (USA) in 2013.
The Five Seasons of Love (As cinco estações do amor), published by Record (Brazil), Host Publications
(USA), Alfaguara (Mexico), Corregidor (Argentina), Il Sirento (Italy).
The Book of Emotions (O livro das emoções), published by Record (Brazil) and Dalkey Archive Press
(USA).
THE AUTHOR
João Almino, whose novels have been highly praised by Brazilian critics, has
received some of Brazil’s most distinguished literary awards. The Five Seasons
of Love, translated into Spanish, English and Italian, received the Casa de las
Américas 2003 Literary Award. Free City received the Zaffari & Bourbon
Literary Award for best novel published in Brazil from May 2009 to May 2011,
was shortlisted for both the Jabuti and the Portugal-Telecom awards, was
published in French by Éditions Métailié and in English by Dalkey Archive
Press. João Almino has been described as “one of the most brilliant authors
of his generation” (Folha de S. Paulo) and “one of our country’s best authors”.
From his first novel, critics have recognized the quality and inventiveness of
his language. In the words of Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sanchez, “he is a unique writer, who knows
how to get across profound ideas without letting them suck the life out of his stories”.
NF ANATOMY OF EXPRESSION (ANATOMIA DA EXPRESSÃO)
Maria Pia ANDREONI
Anatomy of Expression presents a revolutionary concept of corporeity and offers precious tools for
using the body in a wiser way. This book is a guide to understanding the organization of muscular
expression, where each emotion has a precise location in the body and activates a specific muscle
that is responsible for its expression. This enables us to map emotions in the body and learn how
to contact them physically through breathing and movements.
Consciousness of muscular expression is a key to integrate the physical form to its internal
contents, enhancing the power of communication. In reality, there is a great distance between what
we think and feel and what we express. Nonetheless, we judge and are judged by what we reveal.
The construction of a harmonious image provides definite and rapid results in the exercise of any
field of activity, enabling a person to become more prosperous and charismatic. When we relearn
how to express our emotions physically, we free the pulsation of movement and again become
dancers of expression.
Publication/Status: On submission
THE AUTHOR
Maria Pia Andreoni is a body therapist, actor’s coach and writer. As a professional she has integrated her dance and dramatic arts experience to her
studies in metaphysics, anatomy and movement, combined with a meditation practice in the development of a method that treats muscular expression
through a holistic approach. The Muscular Organization of Expression technique is based on the interrelation between muscles and emotions to create
a harmonious image. During the work process, emotions, movements, gestures and voice are elaborated into one single expression, which constantly
integrates body and psyche. Maria Pia lives in Rio de Janeiro, where she is the director of The Expression Factory and teaches her method to artists, businessmen, therapists and the general public.
She presents workshops all over Brazil and abroad.
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THE HOUSE FALLS DOWN (A CASA CAI)
Marcelo BACKES
A man who ran away from life all his life. He suddenly loses his father with whom he never got
along. Together with the significant but suspicious inheritance in real estate that he receives, the man
is forced to learn about the history of the urban development in Rio de Janeiro and Leblon, one of
the most expensive neighborhoods of the world. He starts a relationship with his father’s widow and
builds their house and love nest precisely in the worst swamp from all pieces of his inheritance, a
condominium erected over the ashes of a notorious slum in the opulent South Zone of Rio, which
had to disappear to give room to the speculation of the real estate market. Amongst the remains of
the past and the present, he discovers himself and his father, his city and his country.
Publication/Status: To come out from Companhia das Letras (Brazil) in November, 2014.
Previous title
The Last Minute (O último minuto), published by Companhia das Letras (Brazil) in May, 2013. To come
out from Del Vecchio Editore (Italy) in 2014.
THE AUTHOR
Born in 1973 in Campina das Missões, southern Brazil, Marcelo Backes
completed a doctorate in German and Romance Studies at Freiburg
University, after studying Journalism and Brazilian Literature. He is
an author, translator and lecturer, having edited over twenty classic
and contemporary international writers, and translated more than
thirty German and Austrian authors, often in the context of annotated
editions, including Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Nietzsche, Kafka and Arthur
Schnitzler. In 2010, he won a scholarship as a writer in the Academy of
Arts, in Berlin, where he wrote The Last Minute. His published works include two novels; a collection
of aphorism, epigrams and narrative fragments; and book on the history of German literature and
his doctoral thesis on Heine.
NF MARINA – A LIFE FOR A CAUSE (MARINA – A VIDA POR UMA CAUSA)
Marília de CAMARGO CÉSAR
Marina – A Life for a Cause is the biography of Marina Silva, Brazilian environmentalist, former
Senator and former Environment Minister who was depicted by The Guardian newspaper as one of
the 50 people who could save the planet and is defined by many Brazilians as the “synthesis of a new
era”. As the recipient of 20 million votes in the Brazilian 2010 presidential election as a candidate
for the Green Party, Marina Silva has turned her life into an inspiring story of faith and overcoming
adversity. She was born in the middle of the Amazon jungle, in Acre State, was illiterate until 16 and
got a degree in History after fighting life threatening diseases and prejudice. The book presents her
poor childhood in the Amazon rubber fields, her youth and the fight for survival, her wish to be a
nun and her later involvement with basic ecclesial communities and rubber tappers’ leader Chico
Mendes, one of her main mentors. Her touching life trajectory encapsulates the work and idealism
of one of the most inspiring world environmental leaders, someone who never compromised her
alternative world view.
Publication/Status: Published by Editora Mundo Cristão (Brazil) in 2010.
NF BETWEEN THE CROSS AND THE RAINBOW (ENTRE A CRUZ E O ARCO-ÍRIS)
Marília de CAMARGO CÉSAR
A report that is as stinging as wide in scope on the relationship between homosexuality and
Christians, above all the evangelical denominations. Based on solid research of historical sources, the
author investigates the social and religious origins of Christian pleas for homosexual exclusion. On
top of that, the book reveals feelings and opinions on this theme through interviews with ministers,
priests, gays, relatives of gays, historians, and psychologists, among many dozens of people from all
strata that were heard. The result is a mosaic of deeply humane stories and cases, which expose that,
much beyond arguments and debates around polemic topics, there are attitudes and conflicts that
just cause pain.
Publication/Status: Published by Gutenberg (Brazil) in 2013.
THE AUTHOR
Marília de Camargo César is a journalist and a writer, author of the successful
title Hurt in the Name of God (Feridos em nome de Deus), which stayed for
several weeks on the best seller lists, in 2009. She worked for TV Globo, Gazeta
Mercantil, and Il Sole-24 Ore, main business daily in Italy. She was a member of
the founding team of Valor Econômico, major financial and economic paper in
Latin America, where she works as an editor. Born in São Paulo, where she still
lives, Marília is married to André and has two daughters, Marina and Luiza.
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Chronicle of the Murdered House (CRÔNICA DA CASA ASSASSINADA)
Lúcio CARDOSO
Lúcio Cardoso’s 1959 novel, Crônica da casa assassinada, tells the story of a traditional family’s
slippage into social and moral decline. Employing a variety of narrative devices – including letters,
diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions and accounts penned by the various characters – the author
weaves a complex and thoroughly engaging tale, hauntingly brought to life by a prose style unique in
Brazilian literature. Truth and falsehood play out their contradictions, drawing the reader into a plot
peppered by adultery, incest, madness and decadence, the overriding theme of which is the conflict
between the freedom to live out one’s desires and the constraints imposed upon the individual by
social conventions and family values. A descent into the dark underside of Brazilian culture, with the
universal appeal of a great work of literature.
“When a friend suggested that Crônica da casa assassinada might be the greatest modern Brazilian novel,
I was startled. There are so many more obvious candidates, after all. But as I thought about it, I realized that
the statement wasn’t as strange as it sounds. The book itself is strange – part Faulknerian meditation on
the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and
evil and God – but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the
essential questions are posed lies its greatness.” – Benjamin Moser, author of Clarice
Publication/Status: Originally published in 1959, this Brazilian classic is in its 13th edition by Civilização
Brasileira (an imprint at Grupo Record). Sold to Open Letter Books (USA).
THE AUTHOR
Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968) is one of the leading Brazilian writers of the
period between 1930 and 1960. As well as authoring dozens of novels and
short stories, he was also active as a playwright, poet, journalist, filmmaker
and painter. Within the history of Brazilian literature, his oeuvre pioneered
subjective scrutiny of the modern self, bringing to the fore the personal dramas
and dilemmas that underlie perceptions of collective existence. Lúcio Cardoso
came from a strongly Catholic background, and his diaries (re-published 2012,
in Portuguese) furnish a powerful account of the doubts and guilt deriving
from his homosexuality. As a writer, he turned away from the social realism
fashionable in 1930s Brazil and opened the doors of Brazilian Literature to
introspective works such as those of Clarice Lispector – his greatest follower and admirer. Cardoso
was also a major force in the renewal of the Brazilian theater in the 1940s, authoring the first play
staged by the Teatro Experimental do Negro group, pioneered by Abdias do Nascimento. He was also
an ardent lover of cinema, which engaged his interest as a filmmaker in the 1940s and led eventually
to his screenplay for Paulo Cesar Saraceni’s Porto das Caixas, the first production of Brazil’s Cinema
Novo movement in the 1960s. Partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1962, Cardoso was forced to give up
writing and turned to painting instead. In the words of Fausto Wolff, “he began to express in images
that which he could no longer say with words”. In 1966, Cardoso was awarded the Machado de Assis
Prize, for lifetime achievement, by the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He died two years later, at the
age of 56, following a second stroke.
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THE REMNANT (O REMANESCENTE)
Rafael CARDOSO
History and fiction intertwine in the tale of Hugo Simon, Jewish banker, influential art collector,
socialist politician and a leading light of Weimar Germany, declared enemy of the State in 1933, after
Hitler’s rise to Power. Fleeing initially to Paris, Simon was forced to seek refuge in South America after
the fall of France in 1941. The untold story of his exile in Brazil, where his path crossed with other
famous exiles such as Stefan Zweig and Georges Bernanos, provides a unique and fresh perspective
on the events of the Second World War. The narrative unfolds to flesh out the experiences of Simon
and his family, living out of the aftershocks of exile against the backdrop of a rapidly changing
Brazilian society. From the authoritarian regime of Vargas in the 1940s to the military dictatorship
of the 1960s, the specter of fascism looms in the distance as Simon, his wife Gertrud, their two
daughters, their artist and adventurer son-in-law, and their grandson, all face the challenge of carving
out a new life from the ruins of the one left behind. The story will get to contemporary times when
some precious art collected by Simon, which financed his escape, starts being recovered by his great
grandchildren, but not the renowned The Scream by Edvard Munch, recently bought by a millionaire
for the Moma for record price. Authored by Simon’s greatgrandson, this is a veritable family saga
over three generations, shedding light on the great 20th-century theme of individuals struggling to
maintain their identities in the face of adversity.
Publication/Status: Final English manuscript in March/April. Sold to Fischer (Germany) and Companhia
das Letras (Brazil).
Previous title
Among Women (Entre as mulheres), published by Record (Brazil) in 2007, Fischer (Germany) and
Siruela (Spain), the last two in 2013.
THE AUTHOR
Rafael Cardoso is a writer and art historian, holding a PhD from the Courtauld
Institute of Art. His works of fiction include Entre as mulheres (2007), Controle
remoto (2002) and A maneira negra (2000), all published by Editora Record in
Brazil, and have been translated into German, Spanish and Italian. He is also the
author of numerous books on the history of Brazilian art and design and is active
as an independent curator. He currently resides in Berlin, where he is finalizing
The Remnant in both English and Portuguese.
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A LANE UP TO NOWHERE (UMA LADEIRA PARA LUGAR NENHUM)
Marco CARVALHO
A story of love and lovelessness between a white priest and a married black woman, flirting with
superstition and candomblé (a religion of African origins), which takes place during the demolition
of Morro do Castelo (the Castle Hill), a symbol of the city of Rio de Janeiro, in 1921. In A Lane up to
Nowhere, the many nuances of this doomed relationship are exposed to the reader with pathos and
the necessary lightness – from beginning until the unusual, but poetic and freeing end. In parallel,
the reader follows the urban reforms which were arrogantly imposed on the population of Rio at
the beginning of the last century. The settings of Morro do Castelo, with its mysterious underground
tunnels, in the central part of the city, underline the misfortune of a couple that had to face strict limits
to their love.
Publication/Status: Sold to Record (Brazil) to come out in 2014.
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CAPOEIRA SAGA (FEIJOADA NO PARAÍSO – A SAGA DE BESOURO, O CAPOEIRA)
Marco CARVALHO
An icon of popular culture in the state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil, the hero and capoeira fighter
Besouro (Beetle) has a voice in this novel, telling the stories that made him famous. Mixing legend,
fantasy and reality, the author shows how a common man was transformed into a mythical character.
This novel was made into a film, Besouro, in 2009, and its trailer was seen by over 500.000 people on
Youtube.
Publication/Status: Published by Record (Brazil) in 2009.
THE AUTHOR
Marco Carvalho was born in Rio, in 1952, and is a cartoonist and a writer.
He began his career as an advertisement designer and worked in several
agencies in Rio. His drawings and charges were published in newspapers,
as Jornal do Brasil and O Dia, and still today he collaborates with the
press. Currently, he develops projects as an editor and designer, besides
being dedicated to writing his next novel.
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BEFORE I DIE (ANTES QUE EU MORRA)
Luis ERLANGER
Sex, drugs, crime and psychoanalysis are some of the spicy ingredients of the existential crisis report
of a man accidentally involved in a dangerous plot of corruption and power. A humorous and
delirious game of fantasy and reality about the anxieties of the human being, in which the author
loses the commitment to what he writes.
Publication/Status: Published by Record (Brazil) in 2014.
THE AUTHOR
Luis Erlanger was born in 1955, in Rio de Janeiro, and has six children. He
started his career as a journalist in the daily O Globo, in 1974, passing through
many different desks. In Brasília, he was in charge of the coverage of Brazil’s
democratization process: the first direct elections, president Tancredo Neves’
death, Palácio do Planalto (the government seat), the new Constitution of
1988, the impeachment of president Collor and several economical plans that
changed the country. After four years as O Globo’s editor in chief, he changed
to TV Globo in 1995, as Journalism director. From 2000 to 2013, he was TV
Globo’s director of Communication. This year, he was promoted to director
of Quality Control Analysis. Before I Die is his first novel, and he is already
writing his second one.
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THE OTHER FACE OF DEVIL (A OUTRA FACE DO DIABO)
Fabio T. FARAH
In 12th century Jerusalem, a German pilgrim received a horrific revelation: in the final days, the Pope
would become the devil’s greatest ally.
Over 800 years later, the Catholic Church is chased by a terrorist group. The exorcists of the
Brotherhood of the Four Angels became the target of an obscure Shiite sect, the supposed heir of the
Order of Assassins. Among the brothers was Father Pietro Amorth. Exiled in a Greek monastery, the
Italian got hold of a lead that would ultimately uncover the mysteries of the enemy.
Looking to leave behind his grim past, British Journalist David Rowling decided to make the
pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and, en route, discovered a powerful relic. Forged by a pope
who became a saint, it was capable of making demons shudder.
In this electrifying thriller, a priest and a journalist rejoin in the partnership they shared in The
Other Face of God. Will they be able to stop the satanic Apocalypse this time?
Publication/Status: On submission.
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THE OTHER FACE OF GOD (A OUTRA FACE DE DEUS)
Fabio T. FARAH
In 1589, Queen Elizabeth I’s Counsel, John Dee, and his disciple, Edward Kelley, come across the
Book of Silver Leaves, which bewilders them. Supposedly written by an angel, it holds the key to
a new age in its slight 48 pages. However, only one person can unveil its revelations. Over four
hundred years later, in a Roman basilica, Father Pietro Amorth is challenged to engage in a diabolic
charade during an exorcist ritual. In a closed meeting under lock and key behind Vatican doors, he
learns what the charade really entails and receives the charge by the cardinal to embark on the most
difficult mission of his life.
In London, aristocratic assistant editor David Rowling wages a battle to recover his professional
prestige in the sensationalist newspaper, The Star. His career tumbled when he unsuccessfully tried
to crack the murder of five women found with eviscerated uteruses and no heart. To the journalist,
a powerful satanic sect was behind the macabre rituals. When a psychopath confessed authorship
of the crimes, David insisted this was all a maneuver to mislead public opinion, but almost no one
believed him.
Few days before Brazilian top model Fernanda Albuquerque is scheduled to land in London, the
journalist and the priest get together to unravel riddles that have spanned the centuries. They have
to race against time to prevent the Black Apocalypse from being triggered. The Other Face of
God intertwines historical mysteries, secret societies, satanic sects, Christian prophesies and high
espionage in a plot with surprising twists that grasp one’s attention from the very first page and do
not let go until the end.
“A fast-paced thriller, with undertones of the supernatural, which tells a story involving magic, exorcism
and historical settings and characters.” – Isto É Gente Magazine
“A book that leaves you breathless, with all the ingredients of a good suspense story.”– Status Magazine
“Mysterious crimes, biblical citations, secret societies, European setting, and historical characters. This
could very well be the review of the bestselling Da Vinci Code. But it’s a description of the makings of The
Other Face of God.” – Portal IG Cultura
Publication/Status: Published by Rai Editora (Brazil) in 2012.
English sample chapters.
THE AUTHOR
F.T. Farah is a novelist, a journalist and a researcher on demonology and the
occult sciences. He writes for children and young readers. With The Other Face
of God, he had his debut in general fiction and was very much praised by the
Brazilian press. Presently, he is working in the next volumes of the YA series
Mystery Club.
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ARRABAL AND THE CAPTAIN’S FIANCEE (ARRABAL E A NOIVA DO CAPITÃO)
Marisa FERRARI
Naples, 18th century, the heart of Commedia dell’Arte – the set where takes place the story of twins
Giordano and Giuseppe, identical in appearance, diametrically opposed in their souls. Giordano is
the strong hero, il Capitano della Guardia del Re (the Head of the King’s bodyguards), and Giuseppe,
the knight of verses, an itinerant actor who travels with his troupe performing at squares and castles.
Whereas tough Giordano, in spite of being critical of the government, believes that protecting the
king and the city is his mission, dreamer Giuseppe has a sole quest: to write a play with speeches,
an innovation in those days of adlibbed presentations (the cannovacio), the main characteristic of
the Commedia dell’Arte. They live in a sort of gentlemen’s agreement that protects each one’s space
until a woman, Luigia di Medinacelli, awakens their love for her and brings their peace to an end.
Realizing that Luigia loves them both, the brothers insist on her choosing one of them. It could be an
ordinary story about twins, almost cliché, were it not for this very choice that is the key of the drama
and the root of the narrative. This is a tale about the masks that hide our lack of a face; a story about
the beauty there is in people’s contradictions and also an homage to the magic of the theater.
Publication/Status: Published by Novo Conceito (Brazil) in 2014.
English sample chapters.
THE AUTHOR
Marisa Ferrari was born in 1957, in Rio de Janeiro. Having a college degree
in Journalism and a Post-Graduate degree in Ancient Philosophy, she has
written all her life: poems, plays and screenplays which have been composed
and put away, except for the musical A Charmless Prince, staged with great
success in Rio de Janeiro in 1996. It was not until now, at a mature age, that
Marisa has taken her first determined steps into the literary scene, presenting
the readers her first two novels. At present, Marisa works also as a journalist.
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THE VISITS WE ARE TODAY (AS VISITAS QUE HOJE ESTAMOS)
Antonio Geraldo FERREIRA
The Visits We Are Today is a unique work in the frame of Brazilian literature. It is formed by the
conjunction of over a hundred autonomous fragments that, integrated, reveal the complexity of
Brazilian society and also allow for a dive into the soul of the individual. Plot, local color and the
wildcard of human psychology compose a breathtaking narrative.
Finalist of Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, one of the most prestigious prizes in Brazil, in the category
“debut novel from authors above 40 years old”.
“It is a breathtaking book. The work he does with orality remembers, kept the proper proportions, Samuel
Beckett.” – Luiz Costa Lima, literary critic
“Like all radical experiments, the work causes as much strangeness as fascination, reminding something by
Dalton Trevisan and Hilda Hist.” – Alfredo Monte, Folha de S. Paulo
Publication/Status: Published by Iluminuras (Brazil) in 2012.
THE AUTHOR
Antonio Geraldo Figueiredo Ferreira was born in Mococa, SP. He studied at the
University of São Paulo (USP) where he graduated in Languages/Literature and
joined the postgraduate program. In the 90s, he left the university and moved
to Arceburgo, a small town in the interior of Brazil. He published the book Fish
And Wane, Poems, by Nankin Editorial, and other texts in various newspapers
and magazines. In 2012 he published his first novel, The Visits We Are Today by
Iluminuras. Several literary critics have pointed out his work as the great revelation of recent years
in our literature.
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ANTITHERAPIES (ANTITERAPIAS)
Jacques FUX
Testimony, memory, masturbation, fiction, history, Cabala, Bible, and literature enclose and permeate
the biography of a young Jewish man in his search for a place in a contemporary Brazilian ghettos
post the WW II Diaspora. From early childhood to the age of thirty-three, he is pursued by the dibouk
as he searches for the woman. The character narrates his life, connections and missed connections
with irony, iconoclasm, quotations, and literary plagiarism. In a tone often poetic and prophetic
and sometimes vulgar and profane, the author describes vivid memories and lessons originating
from family, love, and social relationships in high school. In a voice distinct from the narrator’s, he
constructs a story within the story, one which alludes to the search for Martin Bormann, a Nazi who
escaped prosecution after World War II. After an encounter with the Nazi’s grandson, the narrator
finds himself unable to fully assimilate into the Brazilian culture, especially in the eyes of the other.
From an international perspective, Antitherapies shows what is both exotic and common about a
small Brazilian jewish community in the twenty-first century.
Winner of Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, one of the most prestigious prizes in Brazil, in the category
“debut novel from authors under 40”.
“To the jury of São Paulo Prize, Fux is a ‘major revelation’ with his ‘dilacerating prose’. He received
the prize awarded to a first novel by an author under 40 years old for ‘his dramatic intensity, for his
cunning eye and the poetic prose he develops for the sake of his narrative.” – Marcia Abos, O Globo
Publication/Status: Published by Scriptum (Brazil) in 2012.
THE AUTHOR
Jacques Fux is a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2012-2014), performed
post-doctoral studies at the University of Campinas, received his Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from UFMG and doctorate in Langue, Littérature et
Civilisation Françaises from the Université de Lille 3, his Master’s degree in
Computer Science and bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from UFMG. In 2011
he published Literatura e matemática: Jorge Luis Borges, Georges Perec e o
OULIPO, which was awarded the Capes Prize for the Best Thesis in Letters and
Linguistics in Brazil in 2010. The author has produced diverse academic works
while living in Israel, USA, France, and Argentina.
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PRE-SALT 2025 MISSION (MISSÃO PRÉ-SAL 2025)
Vivianne GEBER
Brazilian Navy officer Rodolfo Ruppel has been sent to London on a secret mission. On the surface,
this is an opportunity for him and his wife to enjoy a second honeymoon and perhaps revive their
lifeless marriage. The mission, it seems, is to recapture stolen information about the Pre-Salt 2025
project, a revolutionary concept developed by the Brazilian navy: a hybrid submarine, half-diesel,
half-nuclear, potentially the most powerful weapon in recent years. His instructions are delivered to
his cell phone encrypted in a graphical image, the Sunflowers, by Vincent van Gogh. However, soon,
he will face unplanned situations and will have to improvise. Naval engineer Victoria Borges puts
his marriage into harsh relief. London leads to a world of espionage which presents him with new
challenges in political and strategic military affairs.
Publication/Status: On Submission
THE AUTHOR
Vivianne Geber has worked for almost sixteen years as Legal Advisor for the
Brazilian Navy on a number of Congressional bills, also providing information
to judges and the Attorney General’s Office. She holds a postgraduate degree
in Public Law and has acted as examiner of lawyers who apply to work in the
Navy’s legal departments. All her adult life, she has been a writer of petitions,
appeals and opinions, but recently, in London, where she lived for two years,
she has become eager to stop writing for judges and started writing for readers
– to touch their souls and transport them to a different world.
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LIFE LINE (LINHA DA VIDA)
Thales GUARACY
A sunny day in the park, a young and happy couple that wishes to have a baby, a gipsy who refuses
to read the husband’s hand, not saying what she sees, for their dismay. From this disturbing starting
point, Life Line reveals the effect of uncertainty on people. What’s better: knowing or not knowing
the future? The skeptical, rational and pragmatist man sees his self assurance ruin until becoming
pure paranoia. His wife, who he thinks is fragile, hides a real and secret drama, sexually harassed by
the contemporary Dr. Jekyll: the doctor who runs the famous fertility clinic where they are trying to
make their dream come true.
Based in real facts, Life Line is a brief, straight and striking story about the misleading and diverting
paths for men and women in relationships, marriage and life. Brutally, it makes us stare the great
challenge posed to people: how to be happy, even facing the always imminent possibility of a tragic end?
Publication/Status: Ms. just delivered.
Previous titleS
Love and Storm (Amor e tempestade), published by Suma de Letras/Objetiva (Brazil) in 2009.
Field of Stars (Campo de estrelas), published by Globo (Brazil) in 2007.
THE AUTHOR
Thales Guaracy is a leading contemporary Brazilian author, with more than
200.000 copies of his books sold along the years. Born in 1964, in São Paulo, he
worked as a journalist in the mainstream media, as for the newspaper O Estado de
S. Paulo and weekly Veja. He received the great distinction of the Brazilian press,
the Esso Award, for his coverage of the first presidential election after 30 years, in
1989. Guaracy wrote a best seller biography, Brazilian Dream, the life of Rolim
Adolfo Amaro, founder of Brazilian airline TAM, and is among the country’s
best selling fiction authors as well, with four novels, a volume of novellas, and
a children’s book. Fate Line is his fifth novel and was written as a response to a
very interesting challenge: he stood for a month in a bookstore in São Paulo, the whole day, writing
his book in a kind of reality show with people interacting with his writing. After this experience, he
finished the book alone and in privacy.
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EXTREME TIMES (TEMPOS EXTREMOS)
Miriam LEITÃO
Paulinha and Bento are siblings, slaves in a farm in the countryside of Minas Gerais, in the middle
of the nineteenth century. The idea of freedom and the best way to get it is what divides them. Alice
and Hélio are also siblings and choose opposite sides in the sliced political scene of Brazil in the
seventies, in the middle of the military dictatorship. In between both pasts is the young Larissa, who
tries to understand old pains and find answers to her own grief. Things should be only an ordinary
nowadays family meeting, in a centenary farm in Minas Gerais, to celebrate the matriarch’s birthday.
But then, in the country who could never look back to its past, unburied conflicts return charging
their final point. In this weekend, a door has been opened for extreme times.
Publication/Status: To be published by Intrínseca (Brazil) in May, 2014.
Finished manuscript. English sample chapters.
Previous title
Brazilian Saga (Saga brasileira), published by Record (Brazil) in 2010 and sold over 100.000 copies.
THE AUTHOR
Miriam Leitão is one of Brazil’s most influential economic journalists. Her
precise, clear analyses have been published since 1991 in a daily column on
O Globo, one of the country’s most widely-read newspapers. Miriam is also
an economics commentator on TV Globo, the cable channel Globonews
and the radio station CBN, and has worked on other important publications
in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. She has won various prizes, among which
the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize, awarded by Columbia University’s
School of Journalism. Besides her nonfiction projects, Miriam Leitão is a poet, a
children’s books writer and at the moment is working on The Future’s History,
a huge report to be published by Intrínseca by the end of 2014 about potentials and obstacles Brazil
needs to face to perform its destiny as a potency. Amid all these activities, her real passion is to write
for children. Her three grandchildren inspire her so that beyond The Risky Life of The Small Birds,
published in 2013 to amazing success, she has two other children’s titles coming out from Rocco
along 2014 – Nathália, the Girl with the Ornate Name (Nathália, a menina do nome enfeitado) and
Flavia and the Chocolate Cake (Flávia e o bolo de chocolate) –, and many ideas in different stages
for books to come.
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THE EMPEROR’S LIBRARIAN (O BIBLIOTECÁRIO DO IMPERADOR)
Marco LUCCHESI
Rio de Janeiro, the last day of the long reign of D. Pedro II. The viscount of Ouro Preto, president of
the ministers council, tries to avoid the implantation of the new regime organizing a wide resistance
which quickly is dissolved. Two characters lead the narrative: the baron of Jururuba, inveterate book
thief, and Inácio Cesar Raposo, the emperor librarian. Fiction and facts mix in a way the narrator
is called to join the plot, reading letters and diaries, visiting cemeteries and archives, meeting
bibliophiles and thieves, and producing a mysterious and thrilling denouement.
“And if we would like to mix as well fictional and real frontiers, this is the Lucchesi that we know from
other works, with his visions of the East, his references to classical music, to theology, to the Arab world,
to Pirandello and Unamuno. Here he fights against the limits of history.” – Hugo Langone, O Globo
Publication/Status: Published by Globo (Brazil) in November, 2013.
PREVIOUS TITLE
Crime Gift (O dom do crime), published by Record (Brazil) in 2010.
THE AUTHOR
Marco Lucchesi was born in Rio de Janeiro from a Tuscan family, in December,
1963. Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, member of the Brazilian
Academy of Letters and Cavaliere of the Italian Republic, he worked for many
years as editor of reviews and facsimiles at the National Library. He has published
essays, fiction and poetry, and besides the awards he received for Crime Gift,
Marco Lucchesi won the Ars Latin Award, in Romenia, for his essay Fictions from
a Western Cabinet, in 2009; the Alphonsus Guimarães Award, for Sky Meridian
and Bestiary, in 2006; the João Fagundes de Meneses Award for The Odysseus
Memory, in 2004, among many others. He translated authors from many different
languages, as Rumi, Rilke, Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Khlebnikov, Süsskind, and
the poems of Doctor Jhivago.
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PERFECT DAYS (DIAS PERFEITOS)
Raphael MONTES
Téo is a young medical student who divides his time between taking care of his paraplegic mother
and dissecting cadavers in Anatomy classes – the moment he feels happiest. When he meets Clarice,
he becomes obsessed with her and begins to stalk her. He discovers that Clarice dreams of being
a scriptwriter and is writing a road movie named Perfect Days about three female friends who set
out on a car trip throughout Brazil. When he tries to approach her, Teo is rebuffed and, driven to
extremes, kidnaps her. Clarice is sedated an placed in the passenger seat of his car, and a journey
around the country begins – the same as the characters in her script. He hopes to make her fall in
love with him. Passing through settings like a chalet in Teresópolis and a deserted beach on an island
near Rio de Janeiro, this dark-toned and sometimes suffocating psychological thriller explores the
tension between the two characters through attitudes and dialogues that leave the reader wondering
whether the attempt to seduce Clarice is really working.
“Raphael Montes is one of the most brilliant young novelists I’ve encountered. He is certain to redefine
Brazilian crime fiction and to emerge as a figure on the world literary scene.” – Scott Turow
Publication/Status: Published by Companhia das Letras (Brazil) in March, 2014.
English sample chapters
Previous title
Suicides (Suicidas), published by Benvirá (Brazil) in 2012.
THE AUTHOR
Raphael Montes, born in 1990, in Rio de Janeiro, is a writer as well as a lawyer
and has published stories in various mystery anthologies. Suicides is his first
novel, the result of his plan to dress classic crime fiction in modern trappings.
He owns a library of over 5,000 books of mystery and crime literature and has
written studies on the genre. His youth, coupled with his intense, provocative
prose style, caught the attention of the Brazilian literary market. Suicides was
a finalist of the 2012 Benvirá Literature Prize and the prestigious Machado
de Assis Prize awarded by the National Library. Both a critical and popular
success, the author was recently invited to contribute to an anthology of
Brazilian crime fiction, edited by Clifford Landers, one of the most renowned
American translators and specialists on literature from Brazil; the collection will feature renowned
writers such as Rubem Fonseca, Moacyr Scliar, and Patrícia Melo. Raphael also acts as copy editor for
literary texts and speaks about the creative process in workshops and colleges.
“A boy invades noir territory.” – O Estado de S. Paulo
“Raphael authoritatively serves up a complete meal for fans of crime fiction.” – Correio Braziliense
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THE ENCOUNTER (O ENCONTRO)
Eduardo MOREIRA
Jonas is very successful working for one of the largest investment banks in the world. At 37 years old,
he is at his prime living in New York, totally dedicated to his job. One morning, on his way to the
office, Jonas is ran over by a taxi on Park Avenue. Miraculously, nothing happens to him. He rises,
walks thoughtfully to Central Park and sits on a bench to recover from the shock. Jonas then reflects
on the fact that he could have died and wonders what he is doing with his life. He has three urgent
questions: What makes him happy? What he wants from life? And who he really is?
The narrative returns to the scene of the accident, but now Jonas is fallen to the ground, bloodied,
unconscious, between life and death. Paramedics arrive and run with the victim to the hospital.
The rescue operation begins, and physicians identify that although unconscious, the brain activity
of Jonas is intense, probably due to dreams that he is having during coma. A drama then emerges,
where dreams and reality mingle and communicate to each other, in this philosophical novel about
the meaning of life (and the battle for saving it). Jonas and everybody around him have to face
questions about death, aging, career, wealth, love, marital conflicts, and the relationship about parents
and children.
Publication/Status: To come out from Record (Brazil) in May, 2014.
Previous titles
The Mountain Whisperer (O encantador da montanha), published by Record (Brazil) in 2013.
Life Whisperers (Encantadores de vidas), published by Record (Brazil) in 2012, sold over 100.000 copies.
THE AUTHOR
Eduardo Moreira is a founding partner of Plural Capital, one of the most
respected financial companies in Brazil. Born in 1976, he graduated in
Engineering and has a degree in Economics from the University of California
– San Diego. The amazing success of Life Whisperers, which remained on
top of best seller lists for many months along 2012, has led him to develop a
number of literary projects, like The Mountain Whisperer, which he considers
a Young Adult novel, and to dedicate a lot of his time to writing fiction and
essays. The author released a popular financial guide in the end of 2013,
Investing is for all.
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THE FIRST STORY OF THE WORLD (A PRIMEIRA HISTÓRIA DO MUNDO)
Alberto MUSSA
Rio de Janeiro, 1567. Rio was only two years old when Francisco da Costa, a locksmith, was found
dead by eight arrows, near the core of the village. Not long before the crime, the last indigenous
villages had been destroyed. That body full of arrows would naturally suggest an attack from the
indigenous enemy.
But it was not what the Portuguese concluded: in a short period of time, ten Christians, ten citizens
of Rio de Janeiro, were considered, singly and each one of them, to be suspects of the first murder
in the criminal history of the place which would become the city of Rio de Janeiro. Even more
astonishing is that Jerônima Rodrigues, the locksmith’s wife, was pointed as the only cause of the
crime, in all ten indictments.
The First History of The World is the novel which brings this real case back and tries to, retrospectively,
solve the crime. The book retells the city’s early history, gives life to the characters involved in the
process and treats the indigenous myths as the key to understand the case.
The First History of the World is the third novel on a five-book series on crimes through Rio de
Janeiro’s history, from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The novel on the 17th century was
released in 2007, the highly praised Queen Jinga’s Throne, and the one on the 20th century, is The
Master of the Left Side.
Publication/Status: Published by Record (Brazil) in March, 2014.
Previous titles
The Master of the Left Side (O senhor do lado esquerdo), published by Record (Brazil), in 2011;
Europa (UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), under the title The Mystery of Rio, and e/o (Italy),
under the title La Casa degli Scambi, in 2013. Published by Angle Editorial (Catalonia), under the title La
Casa del Intercanvis, in April, 2014. Sold to Funambulista (Spain), Kapi Yayinlari (Turkey), Hohe Publisher
(Ethiopia) and Phoebus (France).
Queen Jinga’s Throne (O trono da rainha Jinga), published in second edition by Record (Brazil) in
2007. Sold to Univers (Romania).
The Riddle of Qaf (O enigma de Qaf), published by Record (Brazil) in 2004; Anarchasis (France), Kapi
Yayinlari (Turkey), Editora Casa de Las Américas (Cuba), Campo das Letras (Portugal), Fabula (Italy),
Univers (Romania), CNT (Egypt), Edhasa (Argentina), Delakort (Bulgaria) and Aflame (United Kingdom).
THE AUTHOR
With titles translated into several languages and awards such as Casa de las
Américas, Brazilian National Library and São Paulo Critics Association, Alberto
Mussa is one of the most creative writers in Brazilian literature today. Described
as “genius” by French Magazine Télérama, Mussa uses his refined language and
knowledge of Brazilian popular culture to great effect in his fictional work. An
anthology of Mussa’s short stories, A biblioteca elementar (Basic Library), will
come out from Record (Brazil) in 2014.
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PROFANE SONGS (CANTOS PROFANOS)
Evando NASCIMENTO
This selection of short stories deals mostly with contemporary themes, in Brazilian or international
settings. The idea of profanation is related to a non-religious world, and the “songs” show how the
future of humanity is threatened in a world where gods (for good or bad) have disappeared. In all of
them, a subtle sense of humor, conveyed by a refined literary language, which makes Evando one of
the most promising and respected new voices in the Brazilian literary scene.
“Evando Nascimento is one of the best Brazilian contemporary writers.” – Sergio Sant’Anna (author)
Publication/Status: To come out from Globo (Brazil) in 2014.
Previous Titles
Corners of the World (Cantos do mundo), published by Record (Brazil) in 2011.
Denatural Portrait (Retrato desnatural), published by Record (Brazil) in 2008.
THE AUTHOR
Evando Nascimento is a writer, essayist and university lecturer in literature.
From the State of Bahia, born on August 8, 1960, in Camacã, he currently
lives in Rio de Janeiro. In the 90s, he spent five years in France, taking
courses at the Sorbonne and teaching at Stendhal University, in Grenoble.
In 2007, he got a post-doctorate in philosophy at the Free University of
Berlin. Author of essays and several books on philosophy, and on literary
theory and criticism, he has received extensive recognition for his work
from Brazilian literary critics.
“Evando Nascimento is the most essayistic of all; he talks of art, politics, it [his work] contains his own
theory and his own criticism, leaving very little for the critic to say – the ‘amiable critic’ he cites ironically.”
– Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Folha de S. Paulo
“You cannot ignore the existence of Evando Nascimento: he not only exists, but he asserts his existence
through unmistakable writing, which is not content to be a mere distraction or daydream, but presents
itself as a place of fierce doubt and interrogation. It thus extends the frontiers of literature itself (and is
therefore excellent literature), advancing over the matters of the world to challenge them.” – José Castello,
O Globo
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THE DEFINITION OF LOVE (A DEFINIÇÃO DO AMOR)
Jorge REIS-SÁ
“Today I grew so old.” In a small Portuguese town, Francisco begins his notes with a sentence that
describes a most dramatic event that happened in his life: his wife Susana, mother of his baby
and love of his life, is laying in the hospital after a stroke. And this way will be for the months to
come between May and October, because the doctors decided to not interrupt the pregnancy.
Francisco will tell us what is to live the announced grief, all the things that happened until that day
and all the things that happen every day. Between each month, an eve announces itself. Each one is
a letter, thrown away in the bottom of a sock drawer years after being written. Thirty years, 30 years
that will explain much of what is happening today to Susana and Francisco. And, that said, that
will define love.
Publication/Status: To come out from Guerra & Paz (Portugal) in 2014.
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EVERY DAY (TODOS OS DIAS)
Jorge REIS-SÁ
Every Day is a book about loss. The loss of a member of a family, but also of the novelistic fabric itself,
leaving the reader bound up in the book through the language in which it is written. Four characters;
a polyphonic novel in which we are presented with a day in the life of a family. And in this day every
day emerges intact and full of memories.
Publication/Status: Published by Dom Quixote (Portugal) in 2006; by Record (Brazil) in 2007.
Previous title
The Gift (O dom), published by Magnólia (Portugal) in 2007; and by Record (Brazil) in 2009.
THE AUTHOR
Jorge Reis-Sá was born in Vila Nova de Famalicão, a small city in the north
of Portugal, in 1977. He attended courses in Astronomy and Biology and is
an editorial consultant after being the founder and editor of Quasi Edições
(1999-2009) and editorial director of Babel (2010-2013). He has produced
several anthologies, being Portuguese Poems (Poemas portugueses),
the most important one, the largest anthology of Portuguese poetry ever.
His poetry is collected in the book Anthropology Institute (Instituto de
Antropologia). Besides the novels Every Day and The Gift, he published
the volumes of short stories Clay (Terra) and Because It is Needed (Por
ser preciso) and several chronicle books, as he often collaborates with newspapers and magazines
like LER, Público and Sábado.
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THE COUNTESS OF PICAÇUROVA (A CONDESSA DE PICAÇUROVA)
Antonio SALVADOR
To annihilate the “imbeciles” and assert his concept of a “model-person”, genius Cesario Boaventura
develops a theory about monkeys’ supremacy over the human race. His theory arises not only from
his observation of the citizens of Coité, a fictitious city mounted atop self-destructive paradigms,
but mainly from the bizarre and unexpected appearance of a female monkey out of the trunk of
an “orabutan” (an indigenous term for the Brazilwood tree, after which the country was named).
Welcomed by the surrounding community, the monkey wittingly manages to define her own space
and, with that, she grants the citizens’ devotion. While keeping her simian condition, the monkey
becomes the novel’s main character, Benguela. Humanized, Benguela eventually becomes a countess
– the Countess of Picaçurova – therefore achieving the highest level of artificiality: a title of nobility.
Following these events, a joint effort – always paying homage to the whims of Death – causes the
entire social order to collapse. The novel’s plotline is rooted in Brazil’s deepest and lesser-known
realities that are constantly trespassed by opposing forces: the universal and the particular, the
modern and the archaic, the real and the surreal. A mythical timeline and an amorphous space help
illustrate the split panels of contemporary societies.
Publication/Status: Published by Prólogo Selo Editorial (Brazil), in 2013
English and German samples.
THE AUTHOR
Antonio Salvador works as a writer and a lawyer. He also follows a career in
academics, teaching in several Brazilian and foreign universities. A number
of his articles appeared in different academic magazines and he took part in
international projects of institutions such as DiverCult in Spain and RAIA
(Ibero-American Audiovisual Net). He was co-researcher for the documentary
Ctrl -V – VideoControl, released in 2011. He is author of the essayistic book
Three Pennies for the Culture, to be published in 2014, and co-author of the
documentary book Videocracy, also to come out in 2014. With his debut novel The Countess of
Picaçurova, he won the Literature Prize Prêmio Nascente in 2009, awarded by University of São
Paulo, was nominated to the Machado de Assis Prize of the National Library in 2012, and was a
finalist in the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2013. Born in 1980 in Natal, he moved to São Paulo as
a child. Currently he lives in Berlin, where he dedicates his time to writing his second novel.
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OUR DEAR NAZIS (NOSSOS QUERIDOS NAZISTAS)
Miguel SANCHES NETO
Here is a novel of alternative History about the horrendous latent possibilities of Nazism taking power
in the south of Brazil during the 1930’s and the II World War. During Vargas dictatorship, a secret deal
with Germany enforces the Nazi Party in Brazil, promoting the militarization of the German colonies
– in the states of Rio do Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana. Following the steps of Adolpho
Ventura, a brilliant black man who suffers from Nazi persecution, mainly after his “Aryan” girlfriend
gives birth to a mixed blood son, the book reveals a strategically erased page of Brazilian history – a
serious affair with the racialist ideology –, building a narrative full of tensions between tropical Brazil
and Europe, in a frightening proposal of social cleansing. Historical turn-arounds provoke a wave
of violence which delights the ruling elite in a nation that does not see itself and does not accept its
character as a product of blood mixture. In that other Brazil, Black people do not have a place. One of
the characters says: “Getulio Vargas is teaching us what it means to be black in Brazil.”
With the intensity of a Tarantino movie, Miguel Sanches’ novel shows us, Brazilians, that our History
could have been a nightmare.
Publication/Status: To come out from Intrínseca (Brazil) in August, 2014.
Previous titles
The Wood Word (A máquina de madeira), published by Companhia das Letras (Brazil) in November
2012. Sold to Lux (Canada – Fr).
An Anarchist Love (Um amor anarquista), published by Record (Brazil) in 2005 and Beatriz Viterbo
(Argentina).
THE AUTHOR
Born in 1965 in southern Brazil, Miguel Sanches Neto is one of the leading
writers of contemporary Brazilian literature. His novels combine human
depth, narrative dexterity and critical vision. Coming from a family of
uneducated laborers, Sanches Neto was formerly a farmhand, an agricultural
technician and a schoolteacher. Today he teaches literature at university
level and contributes to Brazil’s major newspapers and magazines. A finalist
to the most prestigious national book awards, he received the 2002 Cruz e
Sousa Prize and the Binational Brazil-Argentina Arts and Culture Award (2005). His literary output
has been continuous, as evidenced by the publication years of his novels: Rain On My Childhood
(2000), An Anarchist Love (2005), The First Woman (2008), Five o’Clock Tea With the Vampire
(2010), The Wood Word (2012), and Brazilian Nazi, the original text having just been delivered, by
the end of 2013, to the publisher.
“The best author of his generation” – Veja Magazine
“One of the great writers of our time”– O Globo
“An author recognized as one of today’s finest Brazilian writers” – Época Magazine
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THE LAND OF NO EVIL (A TERRA SEM MALES)
Maria José SILVEIRA
The time and place of this novel is a mythical e a-historic Brazil. The First People has inherited the
secret of the Time of no Evil, and that is what their enemies wish to discover. In fact, the secret for
“this land of happiness, freedom and love” is just to live the best way you can, and wait. Nevertheless,
the people of El Dorado believe that this secret must be more concrete and material. They plan to
achieve it and, for that, reunite its own and powerful army, and also the mercenaries of the People
without Color, the Dry-Bodies and the Living-Dead. The First People has other mythical forces to
defend their land, among them the Amazons and the gigantic M’Boitatá.
The novel narrates the history of this war, meanwhile other mythical beings present themselves:
Uiara, an Amazonian version of the sirens, Curupira, defender of the forests and their animals, the
Old Trampler Lady, the twins Macu and Naíma and the Men of the Rain. Through the novel abound
fantasy, deaths, amazing love scenes and a lot of humor with commitment to no truth whatsoever.
Publication/Status: On submission.
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THE CITY WITH A THOUSAND TEETH (PAULICEIA DE MIL DENTES)
Maria José SILVEIRA
This novel about São Paulo, the sixth largest city in the world, revolves around the invasion of a wellknown law firm by an upper-class young man, a scion from Paulistana elite, who takes two hostages:
the ex-girlfriend who rejected him and the firm’s cleaning lady. The complex stories of a variety of
characters from different worlds pivot around this fulcrum in a dense book that is a pleasure to
read, written with various types of language and in voices that reflect the diversity and vitality of a
megalopolis.
A finalist to the Portugal Telecom Award.
Publication/Status: Published by Editora Prumo (Brazil) in 2012
OTHER TITLES
The Good Life (A boa vida), on submission.
Our Beloved Myths (Nossos queridos mitos), sold to Rocco (Brazil), to be published in 2015.
DAMIANA or The War in the Heart of Brazil (DAMIANA ou Guerra no coração do Serrado), published
by Editora Record in 2007.
Eleanor Marx, Karl’s Daughter (Eleanor Marx, filha de Karl), published by Editora Francis (Brazil) in
2002, by LOM Ediciones (Chile) in 2005, and by Editora Txlaparta (Spain) in 2006.
THE AUTHOR
Maria José Silveira is a writer and translator. Graduated in Communication
and Anthropology, with a Master’s Degree in Political Science, she worked for
several years as an editor and publisher. Her first novel, The Mother’s Mother,
received an award by APCA in 2002 and the rights were purchased by TV
Globo. Since then, she dedicates herself exclusively to writing and published
a vast work of awarded children and YA books, many of them adopted by
government programs. She has also written three plays, all staged. Born in
Goiania, she lives for years in São Paulo.
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The Gold of Quipapá (L’OR DE QUIPAPÁ)
Hubert TÉZENAS
Recife, Brazil, 1987. A realtor, Alberico Cruz, witnesses the murder of a rural leader. Wrongly accused
for the crime, he is arrested but escapes during a rebellion. To prove his innocence and save his life,
he allies himself to a journalist with whom he goes to a very small town in the sugar cane region,
hoping to identify the real murderer of the union leader: the journalist suspects of Kelbian Carvalho,
the son of a distillery owner, who reigns like a tyrant in the region. Kelbian secretly rules a gold mine
in the backwoods which uses slaves. By chance, Cruz recognizes Kelbian’s half brother and partner
and follows him, discovering the mine. Back to Recife, the scandal comes to light, and Carvalho
family decides to get rid of Kelbian – by this time, he became a mess – and buy Cruz’s silence. After
hesitating, he accepts to be corrupted. A wonderful noir novel that has been gathering enormous
praise from the French press since its launch in April, 2013.
“A first novel of high quality, a sober and effective narrative which makes
The Gold of Quipapá one of the good 2013 surprises.” – Passion Polar
Publication/Status: Published by L’Écailler (France), in 2013. Sold to Vertigo (Brazil).
French final edition.
THE AUTHOR
Hubert Tézenas was born in Paris, in 1962. After chaotic studies (three years in
École Normale Sup and three months in Sciences Po, in Paris), in 1985 he left
everything and moved alone to Brazil, where he fell in love for the country. He
tried two or three jobs in several regions and became a translator of romance
novels to finance his trips. Gradually, he specialized in noir literature. Back to
France after ten years, he became the translator of Robert Crais, MO Hayder,
Ed McBain, Elizabeth George, Tess Gerritsen, Erik Larson. Nowadays, he works
in the translation of James Sallis’ Driven. Also out of love for Brazil, he recently
translated into French two important Brazilian contemporary authors, Edney
Silvestre and Alberto Mussa. The Gold of Quipapá is his first novel and was
inspired by the years he lived in the Brazilian Northeast.
CLIENTS
To Brazil only
2 Seas Agency
Atlantic Books UK
Aufbau Verlag
Ella Sher Agency
Kiepenheuer & Witsch Verlag
L’Autre Agence
Nord-Süd Verlag
To Brazil and Portugal
Seven Stories Press
Sole Books