Books like The lives of things by José Saramago

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

When the world discovers death has stopped, humanity initially celebrates eternal life—only to confront the chaos of caring for the permanently dying, losing insurers and mourners alike.

Tove Jansson's beloved collection of short stories, A Winter Book, translated into English and introduced by renowned author Ali Smith.

Continues the story of two siblings from a horror novel set in Stockholm.

Lisbon circa 1935 comes to life in this story of a doctor who forsakes medicine to recite poetry in the streets, the women in his life, and the ghost who occasionally accompanies him.

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".

A collection of unsettling, thought-provoking short stories by Japanese author Taeko Kōno.

A collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

An outstanding collection of stories from an acclaimed author, translated for a broader readership in both languages.

"A major literary event that has taken the international publishing community by storm: A best-seller in Brazil, where it received unprecedented critical acclaim, Turbulence has also been translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish, among other major languages. Written by Chico Buarque, one of Brazil's premier singers and songwriters, the novel gives an intense, apocalyptic vision of the paranoia, lawlessness, and nightmare of urban life in Brazil - an extended metaphor for a country facing the menace of a violent confrontation between the rich and the poor." "Set in the decaying and poverty-stricken outskirts of an unnamed city, Turbulence consists of a series of highly charged cinematic scenes, viewed through the dazed eyes of a nameless narrator who moves between two different worlds. An aimless dropout, living on handouts from his rich sister, he belongs by birth to the privileged urban upper crust, with its luxury seaside apartments, its fabulous houses hidden behind electrified high walls and protected by machine-gun-toting security guards, its insanely expensive boutiques and shopping centers, its extravagant parties and trips to Europe. By chance he enters the "other Brazil," the world of marginal and petty criminals that infringes on the edges of privileged society and threatens to engulf it." "Told with compelling urgency, rich in irony, alive with arresting imagery, Turbulence is a haunting novel of kidnapping, assault and robbery, rape, and murder."--BOOK JACKET.

An imaginative adventure as the Iberian Peninsula splits from Europe and drifts into the Atlantic, where a diverse group of strangers confront the challenges of a floating world.