RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 54

December 2006

 
PART XVIII:

Fiction

 
See also items 115, 291, 301 & 302.

172. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. A feira dos assombrados. Lisbon: Vega, 1992. Colecção Palavra Africana. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 79 pp. ISBN: 972-699-302-4. $18.00

The author's O vendedor de passados, billed as a novel full of ferocious satire depicted with good humor, reflecting current Angolan society, was first published April 2004; the third edition appeared in October of the same year. The publisher claimed that over 15,000 copies were printed. José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], a native of Huambo (b. 1960), has resided in Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, and Lisbon, where he was working as a journalist until fairly recently. He has previously published collections of short stories, novels, a novella, and - in collaboration with his fellow journalist Fernando Semedo and photographer Elza Rocha - a work of investigative reporting on the African community of Lisbon, Lisboa Africana (1993), as well as a biographical novel about Lidia do Carmo Ferreira, the Angolan poet and historian who disappeared mysteriously in Luanda in 1992. His novel Nação crioula (1997), about a secret love between the Portuguese adventurer Carlos Fradique Mendes (whose correspondence was collected by Eça de Queiroz), and Ana Olímpia de Caminha, born a slave, who became one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in Angola, was awarded the Grande Prémio Literário RTP. In 2002 he published his novel O ano em que Zumbi tomou o rio. Catálogo de sombras, first published in October of 2003, appeared in a third edition that December. His books have been translated into several European languages. See Manuela R.M. Augusto in Biblos, I, 84-5.

 
173. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. A feira dos assombrados. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2001. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 147 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-2059-5. $20.00

The present novella was first published in 1992.

 
174. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. A substância do amor e outras crónicas. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 197 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-1776-4. $28.00

The first edition appeared in 2000.

 
175. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. Catálogo de sombras, contos. 4th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2556-2. $22.00

First published in October of 2003, the third edition appeared that December; this fourth edition came out in April 2004.

 
176. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. Estação das chuvas, romance. 6th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 279 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1291-6. $28.00

First published 1996. Biographical novel about Lidia do Carmo Ferreira, Angolan poet and historian who disappeared mysteriously in Luanda in 1992.
 

177. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. Fronteiras perdidas: contos para viajar. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 118 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1593-1. $18.00

These short stories were first published earlier the same year as the present edition. They were awarded the Grande Prémio de Conto by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores.

 
178. AGUALUSA, José Eduardo. O ano em que Zumbi tomou o rio, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 283 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2207-5. $28.00

This novel first appeared in April 2002; the second edition was published in July the same year.
 
179. ALEGRE [de Melo Duarte], Manuel. Alma, romance. 10th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 225, (2) pp. ISBN: 972-20-2668-2. $28.00

The first edition appeared in November 1995. The author, born in Agueda in 1936, has a vast poetical output that has garnered a good number of prestigious literary prizes. A long-time left-wing socialist deputy to the National Assembly, he was politically active against the regime prior to 1974, spending time in prison and exile. At the time of this writing [November 2005] he was in the beginning phases of a campaign for the presidency of Portugal. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 19; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 359-62; and Clara Rocha in Biblos, I, 121-2.

 
180. ALEGRE [de Melo Duarte], Manuel. Cão como nós, novela. 14th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 117 pp., (2 pp. adv.). ISBN: 972-20-2301-2. $15.00

This novella was first published in September of 2002. It is said that 70,000 copies have been sold to date.
 

181. ALEGRE [de Melo Duarte], Manuel. O Homem do país azul, contos. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8, orig. illus. wrps. 138 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-1750-0. $20.00

These short stories were first published in 1989.

 
182. ALMEIDA, Germano. Estorias de dentro de casa, novelas. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1996. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 78 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 208 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-21-1078-0. $24.00

First published earlier the same year. This Caboverdian author has achieved considerable success. A lawyer practicing in the city of Mindelo at last report, Germano Almeida was born on the island of Boavista, Cabo Verde, 1945. His work provides an ironic and complex portrait of his country. He has published at least nine works of fiction. Os dois irmãos, a novel based on his official prosecution of "Andre" for fratricide in 1976, is set on the island of Santiago. A família Trago, first published 1998, had a second edition in 2000.

 
183. ALMEIDA, Germano. O meu poeta, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1992. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 59. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 349 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0786-0. $28.00

First appeared in Cabo Verde, 1989.

 
184. ALMEIDA, Germano. O testamento do Sr. Nepomuceno da Silva Araújo, romance. 4th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2001. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 51. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0575-2. $20.00

First book by this Caboverdian author, originally published in 1989; it has achieved considerable success, both commercial and critical, and has been made into a film.
 

185. AMADO, Jorge. Mar morto. Texto integral e definitivo fixado por Paloma Amado e Pedro Costa sob a orientação do author. 4th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Obra Conjunta, Volume III a. Colecção Ficção Universal, 218 a. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 255 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-20-2143-5. $28.00

First published 1938. There have been at least 74 Brazilian editions.

 
186. AMADO, Jorge. Os pastores da noite; Dona Flor e seus dois maridos. Texto integral e definitivo fixado por Paloma Amado e Pedro Costa sob a orientação do author. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2001. Obra Conjunta, Volume IX. Colecção Ficção Universal, 226. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 818 pp., (2 ll. advt.), illus. ISBN: 972-20-1687-3. $35.00

Os pastores da noite was first published in 1964. There have been at least 45 Brazilian editions. Dona Flor e seus dois maridos was first published in 1966. There have been at least 48 Brazilian editions.

 
187. AMADO, Jorge. São Jorge dos Ilhéus, romance. Texto integral e definitivo fixado por Paloma Amado e Pedro Costa sob a orientação do author. 1st ed. conjunta. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Obra Conjunta, Volume IV b. Colecção Ficção Universal. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 423 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-20-2734-4. There have been at least 52 Brazilian editions. $30.00

 
188. AMADO, Jorge. Seara vermelha. Texto integral e definitivo fixado por Paloma Amado e Pedro Costa sob a orientação do author. 1st ed. conjunta. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Obra Conjunta, Volume V a. Colecção Ficção Universal, 321 a. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 340 pp., (5 ll. advt.), illus. ISBN: 972-20-2551-1. First published 1946. There have been at least 49 Brazilian editions. $25.00

 
189. AMADO, Jorge. Tereza Batista cansada de guerra. Texto integral e definitivo fixado por Paloma Amado e Pedro Costa sob a orientação do author. 1st ed. conjunta. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Obra Conjunta, Volume XI. Colecção Ficção Universal, 253. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 506 pp., (2 ll. advt.), illus. ISBN: 972-20-1892-2. $30.00

First published in 1972. There have been at least 30 Brazilian editions.

 
190. ANTUNES, António Lobo. A ordem natural das coisas, romance. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1992. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 329 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1007-7. $26.00

The psychiatrist Lobo Antunes, born Lisbon, 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.

 
191. ANTUNES, António Lobo. As naus. 6th ed. Fixação do texto por Agripina Carriço Vieira. Maria Alzira Seixo, ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Obra Completa. Edição ne varietur, 7. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 190 pp. ISBN: 972-20-3108-2. $28.00

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

 
192. ANTUNES, António Lobo. Auto de danados. 18th ed. Fixação do texto por Graça Abreu. Maria Alzira Seixo, ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Obra Completa. Edição ne varietur, 6. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 253 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2715-8. $30.00

Awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores for 1986. First published 1985.

 
193. ANTUNES, António Lobo. Conhecimento do inferno. 14th ed. Fixação do texto por Agripina Carriço Vieira. Maria Alzira Seixo, ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Obra Completa. Edição ne varietur, 3. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 250 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2713-1. $25.00

First published 1980. This novel belongs to the earliest phase in the literary production of the author.

 
194. ANTUNES, António Lobo. Memória de elefante. 22nd ed. Fixação do texto por Graça Abreu. Maria Alzira Seixo, ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Obra Completa. Edição ne varietur, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 156 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2708-5. $28.00

The author's first book. This novel, when first published in 1979, achieved immediate success.

 
195. ANTUNES, António Lobo. Tratado das paixões da alma. 7th ed. Fixação do texto por Eunice Cabral. Maria Alzira Seixo, ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Obra Completa. Edição ne varietur, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 400 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2872-3. $28.00

First published 1990. This novel gave rise to a new phase in the literary production of the author.

 
196. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. A ponte. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 169 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2000-5. $20.00

First published 1998. The author has published at least 26 books, including a number of other novellas, novels and collections of short stories, and has been represented in several anthologies; she has been influential in the transformation of Portuguese fiction. Her Os sensos incomuns (1993) was awarded the Prémio Pen Club for best book of the year, as well as the Grande Prémio do Conto da APE. Born in Lisbon, 1939, in the 1960s and 1970s she was a voice for feminism in Portugal, both in her fiction as well as through essays. In 1968 she collaborated with Isabel da Nóbrega, Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Augusto Abelaira and others to produce A condição da mulher portuguesa; she published A morte da mão in 1972; and A imagem da mulher na imprensa in 1976. In 1972 she. Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa wrote the manifesto Novas cartas portuguesas, which created a huge sensation, the authors becoming known internationally as the "três Marias". See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 50-2; Cristina Mello in Biblos, I, 564-6; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 551-3.

 
197. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. Crónica do tempo. Lisbon: Caminho, 1990. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 306 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0052-1. $25.00
 

198. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. O chão salgado, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1992. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 222 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0711-9. $25.00

 
199. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. O círculo virtuoso, contos. Lisbon: Caminho, 1996. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-1063-2. $18.00

 
200. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. O enviado, contos. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 113 pp., (2 ll. advt., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0574-4. $18.00

 
201. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. O mundo sobre o outro desbotado, novela. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1995. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 83 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-1027-6. $18.00

First published 1986 by Editorial Rolim, Lisbon.

 
202. BARRENO [DE FARIA MARTINS], Maria Isabel. O Senhor das ilhas, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1998. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 364 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0961-8. $30.00

Historical novel set in Cabo Verde from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, which first appeared in 1994.
 

203. BRANDÃO, Raul [Germano (1867-1930)]. Húmus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 256 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-20-2389-6. $18.00

This novel is considered by most critics the author's "obra prima". On Raul Brandão, see Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 79-82.

 
204. BRANQUINHO, Alberto. Cambança: passagens da morte e da vida em maré baixa. Lisbon: SeteCaminhos, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. ISBN: 972-602-066-3. $20.00

Short stories based on the author's experiences fighting the colonial wars in Guiné. The author, a lawyer born in 1944, has published Pre/texto (1973) and Sobre/vivências (2004).

 
205. CLAUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e., Rui Barbot Costa]. As batalhas do Caia. Com um retrato original de emerenciano. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995. Autores de Língua Portuguesa: Obras de Mário Cláudio. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207 pp., port. ISBN: 972-20-1304-1. $28.00

The author, born in Porto, 1941, has published at least 20 volumes of fiction, some of which were awarded literary prizes, as well as at least 5 volumes of poetry, two each of theater and criticism, 5 volumes of essays and travels, a photobiography of António Nobre, and an anthology. He has also translated William Beckford and Virginia Woolf, and wrote, under his real name, a book on illiteracy in Portugal. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. See Alvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 129-31.

 
206. CLAUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui Barbot Costa]. Itinerários, contos. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 236 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1125-1. $28.00
 

207. CLAUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui Barbot Costa]. Tocata para dois clarins, romance. Com um retrato original de Júlio Resende. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1992. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 199 pp., frontis portrait in text. ISBN: 972-20-1032-8. $25.00
 

208. COUTO, Mia. Cada homem é uma raça, estórias. 8th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2002. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 185 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-21-0071-8. $22.00

First published in 1990. A total of 25,000 copies are said to have been published. Born in Beira, Mozambique, in 1955, Mia Couto was editor of the review Tempo and of the newspaper Noticias de Maputo. His first novel, Terra somnambula, appeared in 1991 (8th ed., 2004); a second, Estórias abensonhadas, followed in 1994 (7th ed., 2003). A Varanda do Frangipani (1996, 7th ed., 2003), has achieved both critical and commercial success. He has published several collections of short stories, at least one of which - the present Vozes anoitecidas - was translated into English and published by Heinemann; his books have been translated as well into Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch. He has also published a book of poetry. In 1999 he received the Prémio Vergílio Ferreira for his work as a whole.

 
209. COUTO, Mia. Contos do nascer da terra. 6th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 245 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1129-9. $28.00

First published in 1997, a total of 26,000 copies were said to have been printed at the time the fifth edition appeared in 2002. The present edition adds another 3,000 copies to the total.

 
210. COUTO, Mia. Cronicando, crónicas. 7th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 22. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 193 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0585-X. $20.00

First published in 1994.
 

211. COUTO, Mia. Estórias abensonhadas, contos. 7th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 69. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 186 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0933-2. Seventh edition of the author's second novel, which first appeared in 1994. $24.00

 
212. COUTO, Mia. Terra somnambula, romance. 7th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2004. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 222 pp., glossary. ISBN: 972-21-0790-9. $25.00

First published 1992.


 
213. COUTO, Mia. Vozes anoitecidas, contos. 8th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 34. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0217-6. First published 1987. $24.00

 
214. FARIA, [José Benigno], Almeida. O conquistador. Mário Botas, illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 1990. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 134 pp. Mild "toasting". ISBN: 972-21-0051-3. $18.00

This author of major importance was born in Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, 1943. His first book, Rumor branco (1968), won the Prémio da Revelação of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Escritores. See Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in Biblos II, 471-2, and Maria de Lourdes Neto Simões in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 181-3.

 
215. FONSECA, Manuel [Dias] da (1911-1993). Cerromaior. 7th ed., revised, with a preface by the author. Lisbon: Caminho, 1997. Obra Completa de Manuel da Fonseca. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 268 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-21-0396-7. $25.00

The author's first novel, originally published in 1943. It is set in the Alentejo, as are most of Fonseca's works. The author's preface (pp. 9-21), is dated 1982. He collaborated in the Novo cancioneiro beside Carlos de Oliveira, Fernando Namora, Mário Dionísio, Joaquim Namorado, Francisco Tenreiro and others. On the journalist, poet, novelist and short story writer, native of Santiago do Cacém Manuel Dias da Fonseca and one of the principal neo-realist authors, see Alvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 200-1; José Carlos Barcellos in Biblos, II, 652-3; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 458-61.

 
216. FONSECA, Manuel [Dias] da (1911-1993). O Fogo e as cinzas. 21st ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Obra Completa de Manuel da Fonseca. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 172 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0040-8. $20.00

First published in 1951, these stories, considered by Alvaro Manuel Machado the author's best collection, are also set in the Alentejo. The author's preface occupies pp. 11-9.

 
217. FONSECA, Manuel [Dias] da (1911-1993). Seara de vento. 17th ed. Com um posfásio do autor. Lisbon: Caminho, 2001. Obra Completa de Manuel da Fonseca. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 212 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0053-X. $24.00

This short novel, or long novella, first published 1958, is considered the author's (1911-1993) "obra-prima."

 
218. GERSÃO, Teolinda. A casa de cabeça de cavalo, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1996. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 248 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1308-4. $28.00

First published 1995. Awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela by the A.P.E., 1996. Two of the author's novels were awarded the Pen Clube prize for fiction. Her novella Os teclados was awarded the Prémio da Crítica da Associação International dos Críticos Literários. Born in Coimbra, 1940, Teolinga Gersão grew up in Mozambique, studied at Coimbra, Tübingen and Berlin, and has been a professor on the faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. See Isabel Allegro de Magalhães in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 220-2.

 
219. GERSÃO, Teolinda. O mensageiro e outras histórias com anjos, contos. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 73 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2544-9. $15.00

 
220. GERSÃO, Teolinda. Os teclados, narrativa. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2001. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 95 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-2089-7. $15.00

First published 1999. This book was awarded the Prémio da Crítica da Associação International dos Críticos Literários.

 
221. GONÇALVES, Olga. A floresta em Bremerhaven. 4th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1992. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 159 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0712-7. $20.00

First published 1975, this novella or short novel was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiros by the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa in 1986. Born Luanda, Angola, 1929, the poet, author of fiction and translator Olga Gonçalves moved to Lisbon in 1930. She was educated in Portugal and London, attending Kings College and Queen Elizabeth College, University of London. She has been seen as an author whose work was influenced by the enthusiasm for the April 1974 revolution and contact with the masses. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa pp. 228-9; Gladstone Chaves de Melo in Biblos, II, 861-2; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 675-6.

 
222. GONÇALVES, Olga. Armandina e Luciano, o traficante de canários. Lisbon: Caminho, 1988. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 277 pp., (1 l.). Mild "toasting". ISBN: none. $20.00

This novel deals with the world of female prostitution in Lisbon, mixing fiction with the results of an investigative inquiry.
 

223. GONÇALVES, Olga. Contar de subversão, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1990. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 183 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0544-2. $20.00

This short novel or novella is an example of the author's "metaficcional" phase.

 
224. GONÇALVES, Olga. Ora esguardae. 5th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1989. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 201pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0438-8. $20.00

First published 1982, this short novel is considered a "mural" of revolution, invoking the spirit of the period.
 

225. GONÇALVES, Olga. Sara, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1992. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 210 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0232-X. $25.00

First published 1986, this short novel demonstrates anew the alliance between the social and literature in the author's work.
 

226. GUERRA, Alvaro, pseud. (i.e. Manuel Soares, 1936-2002). Crimes imperfeitos. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2003. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 351 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2356-X. $30.00

David Castro, the central character in Café Central and Café 25 de Abril reappears in the present novel, first published in 1990. The action takes place from the beginning of the First World War until after the April 25, 1974 revolution in Portugal, moving from the countryside to the metropolis. In his famous "Trilogia dos Cafés," composed of Cafe República, Café Central, and Café 25 de Abril, Guerra returned to the nineteenth-century narrative form in order to give an account of every day life in Portugal from the era of the First World War to the aftermath of the revolution of 25 April 1974. His Crónicas Jugoslavas was awarded the Grande Prémio de Crónica by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, 1997. A journalist and author of a number of works of fiction, he served as a cultural attaché and ambassador. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 232-3; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 384-6.

 
227. GUERRA, Alvaro, pseud. (i.e. Manuel Soares, 1936-2002). O Capitão Nemo e eu: crónica das horas aparentes, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 181 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-1828-0. $22.00

This novela about the colonial wars was first published in 1973.

 
228. GUERRA, Alvaro, pseud. (i.e. Manuel Soares, 1936-2002). Os mastins, seguido de O disfarce. 4th eds. Preface by Alves Redol. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 168 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1794-2. $20.00

First published in 1967 and 1968 respectively.

 
229. JORGE, Lídia. O Cais das Merendas. 6th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2346-2. $26.00

First published 1982. Significant novel by this important and popular author, unanimously awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores for 2002, by a jury consisting of Américo Guerreiro de Sousa, Cristina Robalo Cordeiro, Eunice Cabral, Fernando J.B. Martinho, Joana Varela and José Correira Tavares, in a competition among 69 works by 67 different authors. First published in October of 2002, the second edition appeared later the same month, and this third edition was published that November. This fourth edition came out in April 2004. Lídia [Guerreiro] Jorge's A Costa dos murmúrios (1988) went through nine editions, with a total of well over 50,000 copies printed. She has been awarded numerous other prestigious literary prizes. See Maria Nazeré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 250-1; also Graça Abranches in Biblos, II, 1275-8.
 

230. LINS, Paulo. Cidade de Deus, romance. 2nd. ed. (i.e. 2nd ed. published in Portugal?). Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 12. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 419 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1537-5. First published in Brazil, 1997. $35.00
 

231. LOPES, Baltasar (1907-1990). Chiquinho. 5th ed. Preface by Alberto Carvalho. Lisbon: Vega, 2006. Palavra Africana, Ficção - Série Especial. Obras de Baltasar Lopes. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-699-838-7. $28.00

First published 1947 by Edições Claridade (2nd ed. Lisboa: Prelo, 1961; 3rd ed. Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1972; 4th ed. Prelo, 1974). The preface, original to the present edition, occupies pp. 7-28. A native of Cabo Verde, Baltasar Lopes was one of the founders of the influential literary review Claridade.
 

232. LOPES, Manuel. Chuva braba, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 2001. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 83. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 197 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-1110-8. $25.00

Vitorino Nemésio wrote that Chuva braba was "uma pequena obra-prima da novelística islenha." [Quoted by the publisher on the inside flap of the back cover.] The author's collection of short stories, Galo cantou na baía e outros contos (first published Lisbon: Edições 70, 1984; 2nd ed., 1998), was awarded the Prémio Fernão Mendes Pinto, 1985. The story "Gal cantou na baía," first published in 1936, in the opinion of Russell Hamilton marked the birth of modern Cabo Verdean prose narrative. Born in 1907 on the island of São Vicente, Lopes is surely one of the most important Cabo Verdean authors. In 1923 his first works were published in the Almanaque de lembranças luso-brasileiro.
 

233. LOPES, Manuel. Os flagelados do vento leste. 2nd ed. (i.e. 4th ed.?). Lisbon: Vega, 2001. Colecção Palavra Africana. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 239 pp. ISBN: 972-699-277-X. $28.00

This novel won the Prémio Meio Milénio do Achamento das Ilhas de Cabo Verde, and had at least three previous Lisbon editions: the first appeared in 1960, the second in 1985, and the third in 1991 (Ulisseia and Edições 70, and Vega, respectively). It was also published by 2 different publishers in Brazil, in 1979 and 1982. A Ukrainian translation appeared in Kiev, 1977.
 

234. MACHADO, David. O fabuloso Teatro do Gigante. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 330. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 212 pp., (2 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-23-3624-X. $30.00

This short novel is the author's first work of longer adult fiction. He has previously written for children; his A noite dos animais inventados was awarded the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca 2005 by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the weekly Expresso. He has won other literary prizes; his short story O fantástico verão do Café Lanterna was published by Coolbooks in 2004.

 
235. MARIANO, Gabriel, pseud. [i.e. José Gabriel Lopes da Silva]. Vida e morte de João Cabafume. Introdução de Maria Cristina Pacheco. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Vega, 2001. Colecção Palavra Africana / Ficção. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 149 pp. ISBN: 972-699-231-1. $24.00

First published in 1990. The author was born at Vila da Ribeira, Ilha de São Micolau, Cabo Verde, 1928. Poet, short story writer, and essayist, much of his output has appeared in newspapers and reviews. Besides the present novella, he has published in book form two volumes of poetry and a short story, and has edited an anthology of poems by Jorge Barbosa.

 
236. MARQUES, Helena. A deusa sentada, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1994. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 212 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-1198-7. $26.00

First published 1994, this is the author's second book. While there is a 3rd edition, dated 1998, this second edition was supplied recently by the publisher; chalk this up to "publisher's games"; the editions appear to be interchangeable. A journalist born in Carcavelos, 1935, she has worked for Diário de Notícias, A Capital, Jornal do Comércio, República and A Luta. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, pp. 338-9.
 

237. MARQUES, Helena. O último cais, romance. 9th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 193 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1061-1. $26.00

Her first book, published in 1992. It was awarded the Grande Prémio Romance e Novela da A.P.E.; Prémio "Maxima" Revelação; Prémio Literário Círculo de Leitores; the Prémio Máxima de Revelação and Prémio Bordallo da Literatura by the Casa da Imprensa and was translated into German, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Greek.

 
238. MARQUES, Helena. Os íbis vermelhos da Guiana, romance. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 245 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2103-6. $26.00
 

239. MELO, João de. O meu mundo não é deste reino, romance. 7th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 265, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-20-2088-9. $25.00

This novel first appeared in 1987; it was revised in 1990. The author was born on the island of São Miguel in the Azores (1949). He took part in the Glacial literary movement in Angra between 1969 and 1973. His novel Gente feliz com lágrimas won the most important literary prizes for the year 1989. Autópsia de um mar de ruínas went through six editions between 1984 and 1997; the fifth edition alone sold 18,000 copies, a considerable popular success in Portugal. Melo has published at least 22 volumes, including 5 novels, 6 collections of stories, 1 volume of poetry, two anthologies, 5 collections of essays, and a travel book about the Azores. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 307-8.

 
240. PAISANA, António. Erasmus de Salónica. Preface by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. 2nd ed. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 327. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 203 pp., (2 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-23-3606-1. $28.00

First published in August 2006; this second edition appeared in October the same year. The author was born in Lisbon, 1980. This is his first novel, based on his travels to attend a program on Erasmus in Solonica, Greece, during the academic year 2001-2002, as part of his studies in Law at the Catholic University, Lisbon.
 

241. PEDROSA, Inês. Fazes-me falta, romance. 15th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 221 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-20-2253-9. $25.00

First published 2002. Inês Pedrosa was born in Coimbra in 1962. She has worked for O Jornal, O Independente, Expresso, and Marie Claire. Her first novel, A Instrução dos amantes (1992) achieved a fifth edition (1998). Her second, Nas tuas mãos (1997; 3rd ed., 1998), was awarded the Prémio Máxima de Literatura, and her Crónica feminina (2005) won the Prémio 2004 da Comissão para a Igualdade e para os Direitos de Mulheres. She has also published volumes of poetry, short stories, and essays, several of which have been "best sellers," and has been represented in and edited anthologies.

 
242. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. A geração da utopia, romance. 7th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 318 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0998-2. $30.00

Novel dealing with the Angolan struggle for independence and subsequent civil war. The first edition appeared in 1992. In 1997 the Angolan-born author (Benguela, 1941), was awarded the Prémio Camões for the totality of his work; according to a publisher's blurb this is "the most important literary prize in the Portuguese language." He has also written Muana Puó (written in 1969, and apparently first published 1978 - the copyright date; 3rd ed., 2002); Mayombe (1980; 9th ed., 2003); Yaka (1985; 4th ed., 1998); Lueiji, o nascimento dum império (1990; 4th ed., 2003); O desejo de Kianda (1995; 5th ed., 2004); Parábola do cágado velho (1996, 5th ed., 2002); A gloriosa família (1997; 4th ed., 2005); Jaime Bunda, agente secreto (2001; 6th ed., 2003) and Jaime Bunda e a morte do Americano (2003; 2nd ed., 2004). All were published by Dom Quixote.

 
243. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. A gloriosa família: o tempo dos flamengos. 4th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 408 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2796-4. $35.00

Novel by this Angolan-born author (Benguela, 1941). First published November 1997.

 
244. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. Muana Puó. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1229-0. $22.00

Written in 1969, and first published 1978 (? - the copyright date) - this novel deals with the struggle for independence of Angola.
 

245. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. O cão e os Caluandas. 5th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Biblioteca de Bolso, Literatura, 32. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 175 pp., (3 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-20-2181-8. $22.00

First published 1985.

 
246. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. O desejo de Kianda, romance. 5th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 119 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2082-X. $20.00

This novella was first published 1995.

 
247. [PESSOA, Fernando.] Alvaro de Campos, pseud. Notas para a recordação do meu mestre Caeiro. Testos fixados, organizados e apresentados por Teresa Rita Lopes. Lisbon: Estampa, 1997. Ficções, 28. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 96 pp. (including the final p. advt.). ISBN: 972-33-1286-7. $16.00
 

248. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). A república dos corvos. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 218 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1649-0. $22.00

Short stories, first published 1988. José [Augusto Neves] Cardoso Pires worked in various jobs until he turned to journalism in 1949. His fiction was subjected to censorship and controversy under the Salazar regime. See Maria Lúcia Lepecki in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 387-8; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, pp. 430-3.

 
249. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). Alexandra Alpha. 6th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 447, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-20-0086-1. $35.00

First published 1987, this novel was awarded the Prémio Especial by the Associação dos Críticos do Brasil.
 

250. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). Balada da Praia dos Cães: dissertação sobre um crime. 19th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 256 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1614-8. $28.00

First published 1982. The present edition is said to follow the 16th, the last revised by the author. Based on the assassination of captain Almeida Santos in 1960, the book was awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores.

 
251. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). Dinossauro exelentíssimo, fábula. 7th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 148 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1588-5. $20.00

First published in 1972.

 
252. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). O burro-em-pé, contos. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1999. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 258 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1587-7. $25.00

These short stories were first published in 1979.

 
253. PIRES, José Cardoso (1925-1998). O delfim. 21st ed. Introdução de Eduardo Prado Coelho. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2002. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 227 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1615-6. $28.00

This novel was first published in 1968.

 
254. PORTELA, Artur. Os peixes voadores, contos. Luiz Duran, illus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-20-3153-8. $24.00

Journalist, "cronista", novelist and essayist, the author was born in Lisbon in 1937, son of the writer and journalist Artur Portela. He has published at least six other volumes of fiction, 12 volumes of "cronicas", four of drama, six volumes of literary and art history and criticism, and four volumes of interviews. See Alvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 389; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 453-5; and Ernesto Rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 339.

 
255. QUEIROZ, [José Maria] Eça de. Contos. Edição organizada por Luís Fagundes Duarte [com a colaboração de Joaquim Mendes]. 2nd ed. thus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1992. Biblioteca de Bolso Clássicos, 4. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 283 pp., (3 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-20-2114-1. $15.00
 

256. QUEIROZ, [José Maria] Eça de. Os Maias. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2001. Biblioteca de Bolso Clássicos, 8. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 710 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1998-8. $25.00

 
257. RAMOS, Graciliano (1892-1953). Angústia, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. Obras Completas. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 250 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0700-3. $22.00
 

258. RAMOS, Graciliano (1892-1953). Caetés, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. Obras Completas. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 195 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0059-6. $22.00

 
259. RAMOS, Graciliano (1892-1953). Insónio, contos. Lisbon: Caminho, 1994. Obras Completas. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 128 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0911-1. $22.00

 
260. RAMOS, Graciliano (1892-1953). Memórias do Cárcere, memórias. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Caminho, 1993. Obras Completas. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 440; 367 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0823-9; 972-21-0850-6. 2 volumes. $75.00
 

261. RAMOS, Graciliano (1892-1953). São Bernardo, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. Obras Completas. 8°, publ. buckram with d.j. 157 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0540-X. $22.00

 
262. RAMOS, Wanda (1948-1998). Litoral: ara solis, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 246 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0706-2. $20.00

This novel set in Galicia was awarded the Prémio Literário Cidade de Almada. Journalist, poet, novelist, short story writer, translator and essayist, the author, a native of Dundo, Luanda, Angola, received her secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in Portugal. See Alvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 402; Cristina Robalo Cordeiro in Biblos, IV, 606-8; and Virgílio Alberto Vieira in Jacinto do Prado Coelho, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, brasileira, galega, africana estilística literária, Actualização, III, 664.
 

263. RAMOS, Wanda (1948-1998). Os dias, depois. Lisbon: Caminho, 1990. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 201 pp., (1 l.). Paper a bit "toasted". ISBN: 972-21-0078-5. $20.00

Short stories.
 

264. REDOL, [Antonio] Alves. Gaibéus, romance. 20th ed. Preface by Oscar Lopes. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. Obras Completas, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 310 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0459-4. $25.00

The first edition of Gaibéus appeared in 1940; in edition to at least twenty editions in Portuguese, the work was translated into Czech, Bulgarian and Russian. The significant preface by Oscar Lopes (pp. 7-27) first appeared in the 17th edition, which marked the 50th anniverary of the initial publication. Alves Redol (1911-1969) was the first neo-realist novelist to achieve wide recognition in Portugal. He also wrote drama, short stories and ethnographical studies. See Saraiva & Lopes História da literatura portuguesa (1976) pp. 1114, 1115, 1120, 1173.

 
265. SANTA CRUZ, Maria de. A dama de Pê. Lisbon: Colibri, 1994. Autores Portugueses, Série Ficção, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 134 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-8047-68-1. $15.00

Born in Lisbon in 1941, the author grew up in Mozambique, where she lived until 1978. A professor of Brazilian literature at the University of Lisbon, she has translated about a dozen volumes and written for literary reviews. This collection of short stories is her first book.

 
266. SARAMAGO, José. A Jangada de pedra, romance. 13th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2002. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 349 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0289-3. First published 1986. $30.00

 
267. SARAMAGO, José. História do Cerco de Lisboa, romance. 6th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2001. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 348 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0375-X. First published 1989. $30.00

 
268. SARAMAGO, José. Levantado do chão, romance. 16th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2002. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 366 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0277-X. First published 1980. $25.00

 
269. SARAMAGO, José. Manual de pintura e caligrafia, romance. 5th ed. Preface by Luís de Sousa Rebelo. Lisbon: Caminho, 1998. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 348 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0290-7. $30.00

First published 1983. The preface, dated 1983, occupies pp. 7-38.

 
270. SARAMAGO, José. Memorial do convento. Lisbon: Caminho, 2002. Very lge., thick 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 445 pp., 23 color plates, (1 l.), 11 ll. color plates "Estudos de José Santa-Barbara para o ciclo de pinturas 'Vontades. Uma leitura de Memorial do Convento'", (1 l., 33 pp. illustrated in color giving a bibliography of "Edições estrangeiras de Memorial do Convento", 1 p., 1 l.). Nicely printed on papel Tulivol of 90 grams; the plates are printed on pepel Mediaprint (couché mate) of 150 grams. There were 2,000 copies printed. ISBN: 972-21-1495-6. $100.00

Commemorative edition celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the original appearance of Saramago's most popular work.

 
271. SARAMAGO, José. Memorial do convento, romance. 38th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 373 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0026-2. $28.00

One of the Nobel Prize-winning author's two or three most important works. First published 1984.

 
272. SARAMAGO, José. O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis, romance. 16th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 407 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0286-9. $28.00

First published 1984. Perhaps the single greatest work of genius by this Nobel Prize winning author, though one of his least accessible for the reader not steeped in Portuguese history, the geography of Portugal, the topography of Lisbon, Portuguese literature and the history of Portuguese literature.

 
273. SARAMAGO, José. O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, romance. 28th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Colecção O Campo da Palavra 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 445 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0524-8. $28.00

First published 1997.

 
274. SARAMAGO, José. Objecto quase, contos. 4th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 1998. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 142 pp. ISBN: 972-21-0292-3. First published 1984. $20.00

 
275. SOARES, Jô. Assassinatos na academia brasileira de letras. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 329. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 190 pp., (1 l. advt.), illus. ISBN: 972-23-3621-5. $28.00

 
276. TAVARES, Gonçalo M. Jerusalém. Livros pretos, romance. 5th ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. O Campo da Palavra. Cadernos de Gonçalo M. Tavares, 10. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 251 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-21-1704-1. $30.00

Awarded the Prémio Ler by the Millenium B.C.P. and the Prémio José Saramago for 2005. This novel is the third of a series of Livros pretos (O Reino), the first of which was Um homem: Klaus Klump, followed by A máquina de Joseph Walser. Born in 1970, the author published his first work, Livro da dança, in 2001. His Senhor Valéry (2002) was awarded the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca by the weekly newspaper Expresso and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Investigações, Novalis, poesia (2002) was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Poesia APE / IPLG, 1999. A volume of poems, O homem ou é tonto ou é mulher (2002), was adapted for the stage at the Teatro Aberto during the "encontro do Novíssimo Teatro de Expressão Portuguesa e Alemã" by the Artistas Unidos n' A Capital. His poetry has appeared in anthologies in Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as in English and American reviews, while his prose has been translated into Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and French. He has also been published in Brazil.
 

277. TORGA, Miguel, pseud. [i.e., Adolfo Correia da Rocha (1907-1995)]. Contos da montanha. 6th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2006. Biblioteca de Bolso Dom Quixote, Série Literatura, BBL, 4. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 214 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-20-1651-2. $15.00
 

278. TORGA, Miguel, pseud. [i.e., Adolfo Correia da Rocha]. O Senhor Ventura, novela. 4th ed., 2nd printing. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2000. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 115 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1404-8. $15.00

First published 1943. This edition is based on the 3rd, Coimbra 1991.

 
279. TORRES, Alexandre [Maria] Pinheiro (1923-1999). A nau de Quixibá, romance. 2nd ed. Posfácio de Maria Aparecida Santilli. Lisbon: Caminho, 1989. O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 246 pp., (2 ll. advt., 1 l.). Mild "toasting". ISBN: 972-21-0406-3. $20.00

First published 1976. A noted writer of fiction and poetry, belonging to the second generation of neo-realists, Pinheiro Torres (born 1923, Amarante) fled Portugal under Salazar for Brazil and later Great Britain, where he rose to the position of chair of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the University of Cardiff, dying there in 1999. With Egito Gonçalves he founded A Serpente, and also contributed to