RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 64

November 2008


PART XX:
Fiction

See also items 231 & 232.
186. BAPTISTA, [Fernando] Nogueira. O Águia do graveto: a mentalidade ganhadora do senhor F, romance. Cacém: VoxGo, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 261 pp., (1 l., 4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 978-989-95766-0-5. $35.00
Born in Paços da Serra, conselho de Gouveia, the author of this novel fought in Angola from 1971 to 1974. Teacher and businessman, he has written several other works of fiction.


187. CARNEIRO, José Pinto. Todas se apaixonam por mim. Comédia (quase) romântica. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 175 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8014-83-2. $35.00
The author was born in the North of Portugal in 1967, and was living in Lisbon at the time this book appeared, working as a “guionista” for television programs. He briefly practiced law before publishing his first novel, decribed as “quase policial”, O estranho caso da boazona que me entrou pelo escritório adentro (1994). A volume of short stories followed, Vende-se (1996), then the novel Surdo (1999), the juvenile novella O Cinturão Negro (2002), and the novella Os leões de cuangar (2006). José Pinto Carneiro has also written screenplays, and most recently has worked on the soap opera Vila Faia.


188. CARVALHEIRA, Jorge. As aves levantam contra o vento. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca Em Nome da Terra. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 117 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-552-336-8. $30.00
This novella appears to be the author’s first book and second novella. Born in Beira Alta, 1943, he has published contributions to several anthologies related to Portugal’s colonial wars in Africa.


189. CARVALHO, Frederico Duarte. O enigma da Praia da Luz, romance. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-989-8014-91-7. $35.00
Novella about the disappearance of a young girl on the beach in the Algarve. The journalist Miguel de Andrade discovers links to powerful international pedophile rings which in turn are connected to important political interests. The author, born in Porto, 1972, began his career in jounalism at O primeiro de Janeiro in 1991. He has worked in television and has written several controversial books. His Abril sangrento (2006) is described on the front cover as a novella; it is very much a political diatribe, bringing in much about the 25 April 1974 Portuguese revolution, the independence of Angola, events in the Congo, relations between Salazar and the USA, the death of Sá Carneiro, etc., etc., etc. Other books include Vítor Baptista, o maior (1999), Capitão Roby (written with Jorge Veríssimo Monteiro (2000), Poeta & espião, a verdadeira história de Oswald Le Winter (2005), and A mensagem Brown (2006).


190. CASTELO, Virgílio. O último navedador. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 324 pp. ISBN: 978-989-626-120-7. $40.00
This novel, the author’s first, is set in the year 2044 in a new Portugal, after a bloody civil war in which there were thousands of victims, and a new monarchy is born. It is a country in which there is prosperity and growth, where there are no waits for medical appointments, where justice functions, with a new and fascinating capital called Lusitânia, situated between Beira Baixa and the Alto Ribatejo. The author is an actor, stage designer, producer and director. He studied Drama at the University of Strasbourg on a scholarship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.


191. CERVANTES [SAAVEDRA], Miguel [de]. O engenhoso fidalgo D. Quixote de la Mancha. Tradução e notas de José Bento. Gravuras de Lima de Freitas. Lisbon: Relógio d’Água, 2005. Very lge. 8º, publ. cloth with d.j. 957 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-708-828-7. $75.00
José Bento was born in Pardilhó, Aveiro, 1932. He is perhaps the most important current translator from Spanish to Portuguese, having translated Lorca, Antonio Machado, Garcilaso de la Vega, Quevedo, Jorge Manrique, Juan Ramón Jiménez, San Juan de la Cruz, and Santa Teresa de Jesús. A poet in his own right, he has published at least six volumes of poetry. Lima de Freitas (1927-1998), painter, illustrator, engraver and essayist, has illustrated works of Bocage, Camões, and Pessoa. The illustrations included in the present work appeared in the 1955 edition of Fólio (accompanied by a version of D. Quijote by Aquilino Ribeiro). It is said to be the only systematic illustration by a Portuguese artist for the principal work by Cervantes.


192. COSME, Leonel. Crioulos e brasileiros de Angola. Introduction by Pires Laranjeira. Lisbon: Novo Imbondeiro, 2001. Estudos e Documentos. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8102-11-9. $28.00


193. COUTINHO, Alexandre. O mensageiro de Fidel, romance. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 277 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8014-97-9. $40.00
Novel about a secret meeting between Deng Xiaoping and Fidel Castro, set in Havana, Paris, Shanghai and Beijing. The author is described as having been born in Lisbon in 1964. He began working as a freelance jounalist in 1984, spent the year 1985 in Paris as an intern with Le Figaro, and joined Expresso in 1988, where he worked several years in the economics department, and served as an editor from 1998 to 2000. He is co-author of the book A irmandade dos Romeiros (2006).


194. EÇA DE QUEIROZ, José Maria de, trans. and ed. Rider Haggard. As minas de Salomão. Edição de Alan Freeland. Tradução da introdução de José Moura Carvalho. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2008. Edição Crítica das Obras de Eça de Queirós. Traduções. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 588 pp., (2 ll.), illus., occasional footnotes, tables in text. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1617-8. $75.00


195. ESPANCA, Florbela [de Alma da Conceição, 1894-1930]. A charneca ao entardecer: contos escolhidos. 3rd ed. Selecção, organização e introdução de José Luís Peixoto. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca Em Nome da Terra. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 87 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-248-4. $25.00
First published 2002. On the short-lived poet, novelist and short story writer Florbela Espanca, a native of Vila Viçosa, see Cecília Barreira in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 177-8; José Carlos Seabra Pereira in Biblos, II, 378-82; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 472-5.


196. LIRA, Ana Lígia. O capitão dos Índios. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-339-6. $40.00
This historical novella tells the story of Manuel Vicente da Anunciação, Portuguese immigrant of Jewish ancestry in nineteenth-century Brazil, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the richest men in the country. The author was born in São Paulo in 1979, descendent of Portuguese and Indians. She studied paleography, and wrote a book based on her sociological and anthropological field work in indigenous hamlets, Eu vi um índio de jeans e celular e Sangue, suor e riqueza.


197. MAGALHÃES, Júlio. Os retornados: um amor nunca se esquece, romance. 10th ed. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 309 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-989-626-094-1. $40.00
First published February 2008; this 10th edition appeared in May. The publisher claims to have sold 43,000 copies. Novel, set in Angola and Portugal, about the plight of Portuguese who had lived in Africa and returned to continental Portugal after independence. This is the author’s first work of fiction, and probably his first book. Born in Porto, 1963, he has worked for TVI, Porto. He lived a year in Luanda, and a dozen years in Sá da Bandeira (Lubango), returning to Portugal in 1975. He began working for O Comércio do Porto at age 16, covering sport. He also worked for the daily newspaper Europeu, the weekly O liberal, and Rádio Nova.


198. McSHADE, Dennis, pseud., [i.e. Dinis Machado]. Mão Direita do Diabo. 5th ed.? Pósfacio by José Xavier Ezequiel. Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2008. Colecção A Phala, 31. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 173 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-37-1263-4. $30.00
First published in Amadora: Ibis, 1967, then Lisbon: Gradiva, 1987 (described as the first edition), and Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores, also 1987, as well as Porto: Público, 2005. The pósfacio, dated 2007 and thus new to the present edition, is titled “Peter Maynard, autor do Molero” (pp. 167-73). The author has had published at least three previous books under his own name, as well as three detective novels (or novellas) under the pseudonym Dennis McShade.


199. MIRANDA, Manuel Ricardo. Ginga, Rainha de Angola. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 249 pp., (3 ll.), chronology, bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-555-382-2. $45.00
Historical novel based on the life of Nzinga Mbandi Ngola, later known by the Portuguese as Ginga [of Jinga], perhaps the most powerful African woman of her time. The author was born in Cascaes in 1943. He did his military service in Angola, and lived there during the 1960s and 1970s. This is his first book.


200. PEREIRA, Álvaro Santos. Diário de um Deus criacionista. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2007. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 272 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8014-47-4. $40.00
The author of this novel was born in Viseu in 1972. He holds a doctorate in economics from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and at the time this book appeared was working in the Economics Department of the University of York in the UK. He has written for the Diário económico (2001-2005), more recently for the Diário de notícias, and has collaborated occasionally in Expresso, the Jornal de notícias, and the review Exame. This is described by the publisher as Álvaro Santos Pereira’s second novel, but his first had not yet been published, so this is really his first published novel, and apparently his first published book.


201. PERFEITO, José Ramos. Anatomia de um regicídio. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 166 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-8014-86-3. $30.00
This novella is a fictionalized account of the assassination on 1 February 1908 of the Portuguese king D. Carlos I and his eldest son and heir the Prince Luís Filipe. The author was born in Guarda in 1973. This is his first book.


202. REIS-SÁ, Jorge. O Dom, divertimento. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Editorial Magnólia, 2007. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 164 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-8117-03-8. $40.00
The author’s first work of “diveramento”; apparently humorous short fiction. Reis-Sá, born Vila Nova da Famalicão, 1977, was judged the winner of the III Jogos Florais de Vila Nova de Familicão. He was a founder of the publishing house Quasi Edições, and was also its director. He has published at least seven volumes of poetry, one of which has been published in both Portugal and Brazil as well as being translated into Italian and published in Italy. He has also collaborated in and edited significant anthologies. The novella Todos os dias (Dom Quixote, 2006) was apparently his first published work of longer fiction. His “memória” Por ser preciso (2004) was awarded the Prémio Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage the year it was published.


203. SANTOS, Hugo. Compoamor: uma história de encornados, encornadores e pássaros avisadores, romance. Introduction by Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2008. Colecção Instantes de Leitura, 95. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 153 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-625-316-5. $30.00
[José] Hugo [Sarmento dos] Santos, poet, short shory writer, novelist, and teacher, has received at least 12 literary prizes. Born in Campo Maior, Alentejo, 1939, he has published over 30 books. In 1971 he was prohibited from teaching for political reasons. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 585.


204. SANTOS, Margarida Fonseca. Começar de novo. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 204 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-344-0. $40.00
After a relationship has ended, is it possible to go back? The author of this brief novel or novella, Margarida Fonseca Santos, began her literary career in 1993. She has published several children’s books; her novel Uma pedra sobre o rio was awarded the Prémio Revelação APE/IPLB, Ficção for 1996. Born in 1960, she has taught at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. She was awarded first prize (conto) by the Junta de Freguesia de São Domingos de Benfica (1995 and 1996). Her volume of short stories, O degrau de cima (2001), was awarded the Prémio Nacional de Conto Manuel da Fonseca (1996) by the Câmara Municipal de Santiago do Cacém.


205. SARAMAGO, José. O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 445 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0524-8. $150.00
FIRST EDITION of one of the Nobel laureate’s more important and better novels. “As new” condition. See Carlos Reis in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 440–2; also Carlos Reis in Biblos, IV, 1147–51; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 236–40.


206. STILWELL, Isabel. Filipa de Lencastre: a rainha que mudou Portugal. 13th ed. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2008. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with d.j. 518 pp., bibliography, biographical sketches, explanations of places cited. ISBN: 978-989-626-059-0. $50.00
This historical novel based on the life of the daughter of John of Gaunt, wife of D. João I of Portugal, and mother of Henry the Navigator, was first published April 2007; this thirteenth edition appeared in June 2008. The publisher claims to have sold 26,000 copies, which makes it a blockbuster best seller in Portugal. The author, a journalist, is editor of Notícias magazine. She has written at least three previous books.


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