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      • Fiction
        March 2020

        The girl by the bridge

        by Diego Mello

        Three lives intertwined at random. An orphan of 25 years, a psychiatrist with cancer and the girl by the bridge - a young woman with suicide attempt history - will discover how grievances, absences, anxieties and sorrows can transform us through affection, gratitude and hope after the chaos. 'The girl by the bridge', the writer and psychiatrist Diego Mello, is a novel that deals with the feeling of 'an exaggerated amount of life', even through pain and disappointments. The reader is transported to the movements that develop within the chaotic and turbulent psychological functioning and that question the certainties of life. The arduous task of facing feelings, the author indicates that you need to 'look in the stars some sort of encouragement to pain' and see how the other interferes with our psyche and can save us or condemn us. The work challenges us to walk the path of the characters and the discovery of who we really are, or want to be. In the words of one character, 'You have to get lost to find yourself.'

      • Fiction
        July 2020

        Men who talks with stars

        by João Torcato Justa

        In this novel by John Torcato Justa, a narrator witnesses the history of their ancestry through the protagonist, mother and best friend uncle, recreating a line of magical time crossing the border of Alto Alentejo and reaches the neighboring plain Extremadura, in Spain. Anthony, known in the small Alentejo village by Lobo, is an adventurous young bohemian, fearless and womanizer. The day that your heart is taken away by the unmistakable beauty of the Spanish Soledad, wife of one of the most powerful men in Spain, marks the beginning of a journey defined by Destiny, the Stars and the courage of men and women who make miracles. As background, a rural Alentejo marked by the customs of a Portugal, in the times of Salazar, and the neighboring Spanish province of Extremadura, in a terrible process of healing wounds of the Civil War. John, a participant narrator, invites us to the family memories that turned his family and region, revealing the amazing dramatic density of his characters and an unconventional plot affective links and metaphysical touch with reality.

      • Fiction
        October 2015

        Rio in six times

        by Alexandre Kostolias

        "Rio in six days" is an immersion in the city's life through "times" in reality moments through time, bringing to light a period spanning almost two centuries. Six stories with as liaison the essence of being and feeling carioca. Stories that portray the Rio de Janeiro's past, present and future, including a raid by Rio 2065, the year of the Fifth Centenary of the city. In this book of short stories that celebrates and honors the 450th anniversary of his hometown, Alexandre Kostolias out in a light and humorous language - although sometimes critical and sarcastic - its uniqueness, the exceptional and eternal character of the spirit of Rio de Janeiro and of its inhabitants.

      • Fiction
        December 2019

        Under the guardian

        by Juca Serrado

        A secret that the Catholic Church wants to protect at all costs, the true story of Mary Magdalene, his followers and his beloved master Jesus, rage, murder, danger, passion and time travel. A mystery protected by the Knights of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, better known as the Knights Templar, which involves the story of the Christ the Redeemer statue building, in Rio de Janeiro. A long journey begins with investigations in Brazil and runs through Paris and Israel, a narrative full of adrenaline, unimaginable scenes in "a real cocktail of emotions." The Brazilian writer Juca Serrado leads us seductively at the beginning of the Templars time and embraces us in an exciting contemporary novel, a work of painstaking and fascinating fiction.

      • Fiction
        July 2018

        The governor of the sertão

        by Anatole Jelihovschi

        A tiny apartment or a desert plain covered with "mandacarus"? Between bar tales and cases of life, the Savior, the protagonist, compares his life to that of his idol Lampião. Invasions, the struggles against death, death itself - hard and cruel - the exploits narrative a "stripped crowd closed in a collective hell," is in the hinterland of the past, whether in the urban of this environment, embedded in episodes that carry disappointments and suffering and the will of a freedom never before felt.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        The libertists

        by Diana Correia Brígida

        It all began in Paris in the year 1980. Communities who defended philosophical theories began to exist only in France, after the death of Jean-Paule Sartre. It did not take long to spread themselves throughout Europe, with a goal to defend them, but in the worst way. "We are condemned to freedom" is Jean-Paul Sartre's phrase that advertised in a brochure, the Community Libertista. In these communities, spread-philosophical theories that defend the hard way. When Nicole and Matilde suggest to friends join one of the Communities, which everyone accepts, begins the first day of the most difficult phase of their lives. Every time your freedom will be slipping through fingers that are increasingly arrested and linked to the rigor of an army. It is ahead moments of great tension, to call for a major decision of the group.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        My old guerrilla

        by Álvaro Filho

        A narrative full of time, memories on the shoulders, rusty bodies smelling of sea air, a testimony of uncertain memories of stories. The novel 'My old guerrilla' tells the story of a exiled writer abroad who returns to hometown (Olinda), mother's request, to try to dissuade the father of the idea of ​​killing the president, who took power after a coup. Alvaro Filho teaches us that we must "silence to hear the wind," time to understand the affection of places and things, calmly swallowing discomfort, and wisdom to understand our ancestry. 'My old guerrilla' is like a reef solid melts into air, and the wind sweeping "flesh, bone, blood, paper and ink."

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