Books like A máquina de Joseph Walser by Gonçalo M. Tavares

A young woman's quest to find meaning in her life and the meaning of madness through a self-harm experience.

At a Staples superstore, a divorced middle‑aged aisles associate and his twenty‑something Goth co‑worker exchange letters that forge an unlikely friendship.

A young Romanian factory worker, summoned by the secret police during Ceaușescu’s regime, navigates a tense interrogation while her memories of family, friends, and past betrayals haunt her.

Água viva dá continuidade ao projeto de edições especiais reproduzindo os manuscritos e datiloscritos originais de Clarice Lispector, iniciado com A hora da estrela e que será continuado com Um sopro de vida. Obedecendo ao conceito geral da coleção, este volume reúne importantes textos de referência, assim como a carta do filósofo José Américo Pessanha que teve influência decisiva na transformação de Objeto gritante em Água viva, obra que é ao mesmo tempo a mais autobiográfica e a mais misteriosa da bibliografia clariceana. Igualmente importantes são os ensaios de Alexandrino Severino, Sônia Roncador, Ana Claudia Abrantes e Teresa Montero, que lançam luz sobre diferentes aspectos de Água viva, o único livro que, reconhecidamente, Clarice Lispector hesitou em editar em virtude de seu caráter revelador, experimental e "antiliterário".

An eighteen‑year‑old Australian booklover lands in New York’s eclectic Arcade Bookstore, where she joins a quirky staff and becomes entangled in the hunt for a lost Herman Melville manuscript.

"In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion. Soon, however, Buchmann's ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country's ruling party . . . until a diagnosis transforms this likely future president from a leading player into just another victim."--P. [4] of cover.