RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 43

October 2004
 

PART XIX:

Fiction

 
See also item 86.

98. ARAUJO, Rui. Lisbon Killer: uma de cada vez. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2004. Policial. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 212 pp. ISBN: 989-555-059-6. $30.00

Detective novel based on a true case which took place in Lisbon in the 1990s. The author is said to have been the first Portuguese journalist to enter Timor after it was invaded. He worked for CBS news on Irangate in 1987, and has collaborated with Expresso, O Jornal, and the review Grande reportagem, of which he was a co-founder. Awarded nine prizes for journalism, he has written a book about Timor, and one previous detective novel.
 

99. CARVALHO, Silva. Que estupidez! Sintra: Edições Aquário, 2003. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 235, (1) pp. One of 200 copies. ISBN: 972-98916-0-5. $30.00

The author has published 17 volumes of poetry, five volumes on poetical language, two novels and a volume of essays.
 

100. DIREITINHO, Teresa. O princípio da atracção. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2003. Ficção. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 396 pp. ISBN: 989-555-033-2. $38.00
The author was born in Elvas, 1965. This book is her first novel. It is set in Portugal, the United States, and Australia, dealing with the coming of age of three teenagers, two boys and a girl, told through the female voice.

 
101. LAIGINHAS, Jorge. O senhor presidente da câmara municipal (António, barão, quase-doutor, e quase engenheiro). Lisbon: SeteCaminhos, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp. ISBN: 989-602-022-1. $22.00

The author of this humorous novella has had published at least three previous works of fiction.

 
102. LOBO ANTUNES, António. O esplendor de Portugal. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 394, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-20-1412-9. $35.00

The first edition of this novel appeared in September 1997. A second edition came out in November the same year, in an edition of 20,000 copies. The psychiatrist Lobo Antunes, born in Lisbon in 1942, is considered by some to be Portugal's greatest living writer of fiction. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 38-40.

 
103. LOBO ANTUNES, António. As naus. 5th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1915-5. $28.00

First published in 1988. Final novel in the tetralogy with Explicação dos pásaros (1981), Fado Alexandrino (1983), and Auto de denados (1985).


104. MACHADO VAZ, Júlio [Guilherme Ferreira]. Muros, romance. 3rd ed.? Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 299 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2654-2. $35.00

The first two edtions of this novel were published by Bertrand, 1995. The author, a psychiatrist born in Porto in 1949, has published fiction, essays, scientific and popular scientific studies: O sexo dos anjos, Domingos, Sábados e outros dias, O fio invisível, Muros, Conversas no papel, Estilhaços, and Estes difíceis amores.

 
105. MALHEIRO, Alberto. Meredith: o anjo negro. Lisbon: Guimarães, 2000. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 238 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-665-437-8. $28.00

Historical/supernatural novel, set mainly in the 12th century (a bit of the action takes place in 1960, and a very small portion in 1905), mainly in Portugal, although some significant parts are in the Kingdom of Aragon. First part of a trilogy.
 

106. MALHEIRO, Alberto. Meredith: a dama da floresta. Preface by Irene Sofia Pais. Lisbon: Guimarães, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 199, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-665-461-0. $25.00

Historical/supernatural novel, set mainly in the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries (a bit of the action takes place in 1275 and 1317), in Portugal. Second part of a trilogy.

 
107. MALHEIRO, Alberto. Meredith: todos os nossos ontens. Lisbon: Guimarães, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 233, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-665-485-8. $32.00

Historical/supernatural novel. The action shifts from a vila south of Viana do Castelo, 1960, to 1667, to Tomar, October 1274, to Arronches, 1645-66, to Tomar, 1960, etc. Third part of the trilogy.

 
108. MELO, João de., José Cardoso Pires, José Eduardo Agualusa, et al. Histórias para ler à sombra, contos. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 147 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2526-0. $18.00

In addition to the three authors cited above, the volume contains stories by Lídia Jorge, Mafalda Ivo Cruz, Miguel Torga, Rui Zink, and Teolinda Gersão.

 
109. MIRANDA, L. Relato de um homem quântico Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. Politica dos Autores, 10. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 108 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972-8115-80-6. $22.00

The author is said to have been born c. 1950, and has published three previous books.

 
110. PALMA, Miguel G. O papagaio e o ícone. Linda-a-Velha: Avis rarA, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 118 pp. ISBN: 972-8609-02-7. $25.00
 

111. REIS, João da Encarnação. Novas crónicas com Evora em fundo. Evora: Casa do Sul, 2003. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167, (1) pp., (1 blank l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-8661-12-6. $20.00

The author of these eight short pieces was born in Cantanhede, 1939. A retired secondary school teacher, he has collaborated in diverse newspapers and reviews, as well as having published six previous books.

 
112. SILVA, Ana Teresa. Jogos de palavras. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2003. Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 221 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 989-555-040-5. $32.00

Awarded the first prize for fiction at the fifth Festival Internacional da Câmara Municipal de Oeiras. The author, born in Lisbon in 1967, has written a volume of poetry. This is her first novel.

 
113. VASCONCELLOS, Laura [Remartinez Paes de]. Contos da mitologia celta: as viagens. Lisbon: Guimarães, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 236 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-665-483-1. $32.00

The author was born in Lisbon, 1954, and spent several of her early years in Luanda. She has written a children's book, and at the time this book appeared was working on her doctoral thesis in medieval French literature.