RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 66
April
2009
PART
XX:
Fiction
See also
item 145.
192.
AFONSO, Pedro. O
inimputável. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 303
pp. ISBN: 978-972-8708-33-7. $35.00
The author,
born in Santarém in 1968, is a physician specializing in
clinical psychiatry. He has previously written a book in
his professional specialty, Esquizofrenia:
conhecer a doença. This is his
third novel. It deals with C.I.A. rendition and use of
extreme psychological methods of interrogation. His
first, O dom de
uma certeza, was published
in 2003, while his second, O
manicómico Dr. Heribaldo Raposo, appeared in
2006.
193.
AFONSO, Pedro. O
manicómico Dr. Heribaldo Raposo. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 254
pp. ISBN: 972-8708-24-6. $35.00
194.
ALVES, José. Lua
nova. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Fixões, 66. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 211 pp. ISBN: 978-972-36-0939-4. $30.00
The author was
born in Trás-os-Montes in 1958. A physician and university
professor, he has several scientific books and articles to
his credit. In February 2007 he published the
"romance" Planalto,
which achieved a second edition in April the same year. The
present novella appears to be his second work or fiction.
195.
ANDRADE, Inácio Rebelo de. O pecado
maior de Abel, romance. Lisbon:
Colibri, 2009. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 326
pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-852-7. $30.00
The author of
this novel, a native of Huambo, left Angola for Portugal in
1975. He has published at least ten previous volumes of
fiction and two volumes of memoirs, all or almost all
relating to the region of his birth. Professor Catedrático
Aposentado of the Universidade de Évora, he has also
published some 40 titles on his academic specialty,
agricultural engineering.
196.
BAPTISTA, António Alçada. O riso de
deus, romance. 17th ed.
Lisbon: Presença, 2009. Colecção Grandes Narrativas, 4. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 208 pp. ISBN: 978-972-23-1757-3. $25.00
The first
edition, published early 1994, went out of print in 15
days. The author has written a number of extremely
successful works. His previous novel, Tia Suzana,
meu amor, which first
appeared in 1989, has seen 5 editions.
197.
BARBOSA, Miguel. Anatomia de
um sonho. Preface by
Susana Amador. Lisbon: Vega, 2008. Colecção O Chão da
Palavra, Nova Série. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 165 pp., (1
l.). ISBN: 978-972-699-909-6. $35.00
The author of
this novella, a multi-faceted dramatist, novelist, poet,
and painter (born Lisbon, 1925), was awarded the Grand
Prize for Poetry "Moulin de l'Ecluse," 1993, Carnac,
France. His writings have been translated into English,
French, and Italian. See Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 390-3.
198.
BARBOSA, Pedro. O guardador
de retretes. 4th ed., "muito
revista, pouco aumentada". Com um estudo crítico de Manuel
Frias Martins. Porto: Afrontamento, 2007. Colecção Textos,
58. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 109 pp., partially printed
on pink paper (pp. 93-109 [the contributions of aumentada".
Com um estudo crítico de Manuel Frias Martins), footnotes,
illus. ISBN: 978-972-36-0920-2. $30.00
The author has
contributed a new preface, "toxicidade", written expressly
for the present edition. His Teoria do
teatro moderno: a hora zero, which
originally appeared in 1982 (2nd ed., "reformulada" 2003),
was awarded the Prémio de "Ensaio" of the Associação
Portuguesa de Escritores in 1980. A novelist, dramatist,
poet and literary critic, with a profound interest in the
relationship between computers and literature, the author
has also written stories for children. He was on the
faculty of the Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, where
he founded the Centro de Estudos de Texto Informático e
Ciberliteratura. At the time this volume appeared, he was
on the faculty of the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do
Espectáculo, Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
199.
BETTEGA, Amilcar. Os lados do
círculo. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2009. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de
Língua Portuguesa, 81. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 178 pp. ISBN:
978-972-21-2025-8. $30.00
The author was
born in São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1964. He has
written three volumes of short stories, all of which have
been awarded literary prizes. The present volume was
awarded the Prémio Portugal Telecom de Literatura, 2005.
200.
BONACHO, Maria Lucília. Ela gostava
de rosas. Lisbon: Diel,
2001. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 229 pp. ISBN: 972-8040-47-4.
$25.00
201.
BRAGANÇA, Nuno. Obra
completa. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 734 pp. ISBN:
978-972-20-3726-6. $75.00
The author
(1929–1985), from one of the most aristocratic Portuguese
families, was radicalized in the 1960s, became a friend of
both Mário Soares and Salgado Zenha, and clandestinely
interviewed Álvaro Cunhal. He collaborated with the group
of Livraria Moraes, and was a founder of the review
O tempo e o
modo, to which he
was a constant contributor between 1963 and 1969. See Maria
Nazaré Gomes dos Santos, in Machado, ed.,
Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 75-6;
also Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 653-4;
and, Cristina Robalo C. Oliveira in Biblos,
I, 752-3.
202.
CARDOSO, Manuel. O segredo
da fonte queimada. Parede: Sopa de
Letras, 2009. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 166 pp., (1 l.),
author's endnotes. ISBN: 978-972-8708-41-2. $30.00
Historical
novella set in eighteenth-century Portugal. Manuel Cardoso
was born in 1958, in Macedo de Cavaleiros. He has a degree
in Veterinary Medicine, and has published numerous
scientific texts. Quartzo, a volume of short stories,
appeared in 2000. This is his second work of longer
fiction.
203.
CARDOSO, Manuel. Um tiro na
bruma. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with
d.j. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8708-26-9. $35.00
Historical
novella set in early twentieth-century Portugal. This is
his first novel.
204.
CARDOSO, Miguel Esteves. O amor é
fodido. 14th ed.
Lisbon: Assirio & Alvim, 2009. A Phala, 6. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 187 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-37-0374-2. $28.00
First published
1998. The author has produced several works of fiction, as
well as plays, and a number of other books. He holds a
doctorate [in Political Philosophy?] from the University of
Manchester (1983).
205.
CARVALHO, Sandra. Os três
reinos: a saga das pedras mágicas. Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2008. Via Láctea, 68. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 381 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-23-4039-7. $40.00
The author was
born in 1972 in Santiago, Sesimbra. This fantasy novel is
her fifth book.
206.
COELHO, Guilherme Álves. O segredo
da cauda do dragão. Lisbon:
SeteCaminhos, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp.
ISBN: 978-989-602-163-4. $30.00
The author, an
architect, was born in Beja, 1944, but has always lived in
Lisbon. While he has contributed articles of opinion to
daily newspapers and other publications, this novella set
in the fifteenth century is his first "romance".
207.
CÓRREGO, Manuel. Vento de
pedra. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 237
pp. ISBN: 978-972-8708-35-1. $35.00
Awarded the
Prémio Literário Ordem dos Advogados, 2008. Set in the
early years of the Portuguese Republic, the Conde D. Roiz
needs money, and marries a wealthy woman. The marriage is a
catastrophe. The author, born in the Vila de Cacujães, has
published at least nine volumes of plays, one of
which, Um
gira-discos na floresta, won the
Prémio Inatel, 1991, and the Prémio Comp. Eça de Queirós,
1992. Another, O
testamento do Rei D. João Segundo was awarded the
Grande Prémio de Teatro Inatel in 1998. Manuel Córrego was
awarded this same prize a third time in 2006 for
A Rainha e
o Cardeal. His first
work of fiction, the novel, Campo de
feno com papoilas, was awarded
the Prémio Ler/Fundação do Círculo de Leitores, 1998. A
volume of short stories appeared in 2001. In 2003 the
author was working with the Núcleo Amador de Teatro de S.
João da Madeira, where he was living, and editing the
weekly newspaper O
regional.
208.
CUENCA, João Paulo. O dia
Mastroianni. First edition
published in Portugal. Lisbon: Caminho, 2009. Outras
Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 80. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 161 pp., (1 l.). ISBN:
978-972-21-2024-1. $30.00
The present
novella, the author's second work of longer fiction,
appeared first in Brazil, published by Agir, 2007. The
author was born in Rio de Janeiro, 1978.
209.
DINIS, Fernando. A casa do
esquecimento, romance. Lisbon:
Teorema, 2008. Colecção Outras Estórias. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 209 pp. ISBN: 978-972-695-783-6. $30.00
Awarded the
Prémio FNAC / Teorema, 2008, by a Juri composed of Doris
Graça Dias, Rui Zink, and Carlos da Veiga Ferreira. Born in
1976, the author's first book of poetry,
Dá-me-te, was published
byHugin, 2003. He participated in an anthology of poetry
published in 2006 and an anthology of micro-fiction
published in 2008. The present novella appears to be his
first work of longer fiction.
210.
FARIA, Rosa Lobato de. A estrela
de Gonçalo Enes. 2nd ed. Vila
Nova da Famalicão: Editorial Magnólia, 2008. Colecção
Ficção. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 155 pp., brief
bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-8117-15-1. $30.00
First published
by Quasi, 2007. Historical novella set in the age of
discoveries in which enter the real personages Gonçalo Enes
and Pero de Évora, who spent much time in Africa, and came
upon the grutas of Tassili N'Ajjer, which were only
rediscovered in the nineteenth century. The author, an
actress of stage and screen (both large and small), born in
Lisbon in 1932, has published at least four volumes of
poetry, and nine novels, including O prenúncio
das águas (first
published 1999), which was awarded the Prémio Máxima de
Literatura in 2000. She has also written a number of
children's books. See Dicionário
de autores portugueses VI, 133.
211.
FRANÇA, José-Augusto. Duas vidas
portuguesas: 1, Ricardo Coração de Leão,
romance. Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2007. Grandes Narrativas, 380. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 179 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-23-3863-9. $32.00
According to
the publisher's blurb on the rear cover, this is not "Um
romance histórico"; rather, the story is set in the
Portugal of the 1960s and 1970s, and in France, in May
1968. But one might point out, as does the blurb, that
this is
"romance
histórico", set in the 1960s and 1970s. Ricardo is a Lisbon
journalist. José-Augusto França is one of Portugal's
leading art and cultural historians, as well as an
important critic, literary figure, and intellectual. He was
a leader in the introduction of surrealism to Portugal.
After a long absence, he has recently returned to writing
fiction. Between 2002 and 2006 he produced four new novels
or novellas and a collection of stories, to be followed by
two additional novels and a volume containing two novellas.
See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp.
201-2; Dicionário
cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 203-6; and
Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos,
II, 677-8.
212.
FRANÇA, José-Augusto. Duas vidas
portuguesas: 2, João Sem Terra, romance.
Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2008. Grandes Narrativas, 416. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 186 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-23-4052-6. $30.00
João is a young
Portuguese teacher who goes to Paris in 1965 to avoid the
colonial wars.
213.
HERBON, Rui. O romper
das ondas. Lisbon:
Parceria A.M. Pereira, 2009. Colecção Literatura em Língua
Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 168 pp. ISBN:
978-972-8645-63-2. $30.00
Awarded the
Prémio Cidade de Almada, 2008. The author was born in
Lisbon, 1972. His essays Absinto: a
inútil deambulação da escrita (2004) were
awarded the Prémio António Paulouro, 2004. His
Voar como
os pássaros, chorar como as nuvens (um
filme português; 2004), was
awarded the Prémio Eixo-Atlântico, 2002.
214.
LETRIA, José Jorge. O que
Darwin escreveu a Deus. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Ficção. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 156 pp. ISBN: 978-989-555-437-9. $25.00
Collection of
imaginary letters; in addition to the letter of the title,
included are Marc Anthony to Octavian, Trotsky to Stalin,
Casanova to Voltaire, Anne Frank to Hitler, Fernando Pessoa
to Fernando Pessoa, Eva Perón to Gardel, Vasco da Gama to
D. Manuel I, Queen Victoria to Princess Diana, Mozart to
Salieri, Jesus Christ to Mohammed, Miguel de Cervantes to
Don Quijote, Júlio Dantas to Almada Negreiros, Napoleon to
Wellington, Che Guevara to Fidel Castro, Gomes Freire de
Andrade to Beresford, Humberto Delgado to Salazar, Seneca
to Nero, Grouch Marx to Karl Marx, Robespierre to Dr.
Guillotin, Gago Coutinho to Charles Lindbergh, Marilyn
Monroe to JFK, Jacques Brel to Paul Gauguin, Don Corleone
to Frank Sinatra, Rosa Luxemburg to Lenin, and more. The
author's book of poems, Sobre
retratos (2008), was
awarded the Prémio de Poesia Nuno Júdice, 2007, by the
Câmara Municipal de Aveiro. José Jorge Letria's
A dúvida
melódica was awarded the
Prémio de Poesia Cidade da Amadora, 1993. Born in Cascais
in 1951, he has published at least 34 volumes of poetry, a
number of which have also been awarded literary prizes,
including the Prémio Eça de Queiroz–Município de Lisboa
(twice), the Prémio Gulbenkian, and others. See
Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, p. 266. His
historical novella, Morro bem,
salvem a pátria (2005), was set
around the assassination of Sidónio Pais at the Rossio
Station in Lisbon, December 1918. From January 1994 until
January 2002, Letria was Vereador da Cultura for the Câmara
Municipal de Cascais.
215.
MACHADO, David. Histórias
possíveis. Preface by José
Roço Direitinho. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2008. Grandes
Narrativas, 413. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99 pp., (2 ll.
advt.). ISBN: 978-972-23-4037-3. $25.00
The author's
first collected short stories. Born in 1978, 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. A short novel, O fabuloso
Teatro do Gigante (2006) was the
author's first work of longer adult fiction.
216.
MANCELOS, João de. O que
sentes quando a chuva cai? Lisbon: Vega,
2006. Colecção O Chão da Palavra, Nova Série. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 126 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-699-834-4. $25.00
Short stories.
[Joaquim] João [Cunha Braamcamp] de Mancelos has also
published several other books in the realm of fiction,
including Veleiros do
tempo cósmico: a fantástica odisseia dos rebeldes em luta
pela libertação do Império das Estrelas
(1988),
and Foi
amanhã (1999), a
collection of science-fiction short stories. He has also
written four volumes of poetry, Entre
Ausência e Esquecimento (1991);
A oeste
deste céu (1992);
O Labor das
Marés (1995);
and Línguas de
Fogo (2001).
217.
MATEUS, António. Lobito.
Lisbon: Guerra
& Paz, 2009. Colecção Tempos Modernos. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 199, (1) pp. ISBN: 978-989-8174-29-1. $30.00
The present
"romance", The author's first (and also his first book?),
is set in Angola of the 1960s. He was born in Tortosend,
Beira Baixa, 1949. At five years of age he arrived in
Lobito, considered one of the loveliest cities in Angola.
In 1975, after a number of years in Sá da Bandeira (today
Lubango), he left for Brazil. At the time this book
appeared he was residing in Spain.
218.
MATOS, Albano Mendes de. A casa
grande. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 110
pp. ISBN: 978-972-8708-34-4. $25.00
Awarded the
Prémio Literário Aquilino Ribeiro. Historical novella set
during the "lutas liberais" of the beginning of the second
quarter of the nineteenth century, featuring the Meneses
family, great rural property holders, convinced Miguelistas
in the Serra da Gardunha.
219.
MELO, João de. Luxúria
Branca e Gabriela. Com oito desenhos de Francisco
Simões. Francisco
Simões, illus. Lisbon: Edições Nelson de Matos, 2009.
Colecção Mil Horas de Leitura, 10. Lge. 4° (26.8 x 21.5
cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 76 pp., (5 ll.), illus. Nicely
printed on high quality paper. ISBN: 978-989-8236-05-0.
$45.00
Erotic story,
accompanied by erotic illustrations. 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 25 volumes, including
6 novels, 6 collections of stories, 1 volume of poetry, 3
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.
Francisco Simões was born in Porto Brandão (Almada), 1946.
He has illustrated books by David Mourão-Ferreira, Urbano
Tavares Rodrigues, Fernando Dacosta, Maria Judite de
Carvalho, Agostinho da Silva, and Sophia de Mello Breyner
Andresen. He worked at the Louvre in 1968, invited by
Germain Bazin. He has had numerous individual exhibitions.
220.
MOUTINHO, José Viale. Los moros.
Retábulo para uma novela. 2nd ed.,
revised. Preface by Luís Adriano Carlos. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2009. Colecção Fixões, 67. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 108 pp. ISBN: 978-972-36-0993-6. $25.00
First published
Porto: Campo das Letras, 2000. The preface, new to the
present edition, occupies pp. [7]-13. Viale Moutinho, a
native of Madeira (b. 1945) and a journalist, who has
worked for the Diário de
noticias, Lisbon, has
produced at least 12 volumes of poetry, 14 of fiction, 10
children's books, and 7 works of essays or interviews. See
Machado, Dicionário
de literatura portuguesa, pp. 329–330.
His Já os galos
pretos cantam (2003), a
volume consisting of four stories set during the Spanish
Civil War, was awarded the Prémio Edmundo Bettencourt by
the Câmara Municipal do Funchal, 2003. His
No pasarán:
cenas e cenários da guerra civil de Espanha
was
awarded the Prémio Norberto Lopes da Casa da Imprensa
(1998), and Apenas uma
estátua equestre na Praça da Liberdade
(2002) was
awarded the Grande Prémio do Conto, APE.
Cenas da vida de um minotauro was awarded
both the Prémio Orlando Gonçalves and the Grande Prémio do
Conto, APE.
221.
MOUTINHO, José Viale. Pavana para
Isabella de França. 2nd ed.,
revised. Preface by Diana Pimentel. Porto: Afrontamento,
2007. Colecção Fixões, 65. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 87 pp.,
(1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-36-0937-0. $25.00
First published
Lisbon: Difel, 1992. The anotated preface, new to the
present edition, occupies pp. [5]-12.
222.
NOGUEIRA, José Couto. Pesquisa
sentimental, romance. Lisbon: Dom
Quixote, 2009. Colecção Livros d'Hoje. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 374 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3727-3. $40.00
This author was
born in Lisbon, 1945. In the early to mid-1970s he wrote
for the review Cinéfilo,
was coordinator of propaganda for the Socialist party, and
photographer for the Jornal
novo. In 1976 he
departed for São Paulo, working there with several reviews.
Since 1992 he has worked as a journalist and editor.
Táxi
(2001) based on
his experiences as a taxi driver, bartender, and salesman
in New York from 1982 to 1992, written in cinematic
language, almost as a documentary, but simultaneously
poetic, was apparently his first book. It has been
translated into Spanish. He has published another work of
longer fiction, Vista da
praia (2003).
223.
PEIXINHOS, [Maria] Rita. Uma casa
sem tecto. Lisbon:
Colibri, 2008. Tribuna Livre. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 68
pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-772-831-2. $18.00
The author,
born in Vila Viçosa, 1948, lived in the region of Zambézia,
Moçambique, from 1991 to 1995. She began to publish poems
in 1969 in O
Calipolense, and
contributed to various regional newspapers of the Alentejo.
In 1989 she was awarded literary prizes for her short
stories at Redondo, Alfabeta, and the Gulbenkian
Foundation. Her poems Ironias
were published
in the same collection in 2007.
224.
PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos
Santos]. O
terrorista de Berkeley, Califórnia.
Lisbon:
Dom Quixote, 2007. Autores da Língua Portuguesa. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 115 pp. ISBN: 978-972-20-3459-5. $25.00
The
Angolan–born author of the present novella was awarded the
Prémio Camões for the totality of his literary output. The
Prémio Camões has been described by his publisher as "the
most important literary prize in the Portuguese language."
Pepetela has also written Muana
Puó (1978—3rd ed.,
2002); O desejo de
Kianda (1995—4th ed.,
2001); Mayombe
(1980—10th ed.,
2005); O Cão e os
caluandas (1985—6th ed.,
2003); Yaka
(1985—4 ed.,
1998); Lueiji, o
nascimento dum império (1990);
A geração
da Utopia (1992—7th ed.,
2004); Parábola do
cágado velho (1996—5th ed.,
2002); A montanha
da água lilás (2000—3rd ed.,
2002); A gloriosa
familia (1997—4th ed.,
2004); Jaime
Bunda, agente secreto (2001—7th ed.,
2005); and Jaime Bunda
e a morte do Americano (2003—3rd ed.
2005). All were published by Dom Quixote.
225.
PINTO, Miguel. O ano em
que devia morrer. São João do
Estoril: Sopa de Letras, 2008. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 270
pp. ISBN: 978-972-8708-31-3. $35.00
The author, a
physician, was born in Havana, 1951. After spending time in
Angola during the 1970s, he eventually broke with the
Castro regime, suffered in prison, worked in civil
construction, and was eventually permitted to return to the
practice of medicine. Fourteen years after leaving prison,
he was authorized to visit Spain, and never looked back.
Since 1992 he has resided in Portugal, working since 1995
as a surgeon in the Hospital Fernando Fonseca, and as an
"assistente" at the Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa. Author
of various articles of opinion published in newspapers,
this apparently autobiographical novel is his first venture
into literature. In it Carlos Dominguez, a surgeon and
Cuban communist militant takes part in a mission to Angola.
He is persecuted as an enemy of the revolution, and
expelled from the Union of Young Communists. There is no
internal evidence to suggest that this book was written in
any language other than Portuguese.
226.
PINTO, Pedro. O último
baneirante, romance. Lisbon: A
Esfera dos Livros, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. with
d.j. 295 pp., illus. (some in color), bibliography. ISBN:
978-989-626-154-2. $35.00
Pedro Pinto has
been a journalist since 1997, and has worked for TVI since
2000 as a presenter of the "Jornal Nacional". He has also
taught Journalism and Economics at the Universidade
Autónoma de Lisboa since 1996. This novel set in
seventeenth-century South America is his first book.
227.
ROCHA, Humberto. Pão e
circo. Porto:
Afrontamento, 2008. Colecção Fixões, 64. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 130 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-36-0894-6. $25.00
The author of
this novella was born in Moçambique in 1958. His poems have
been included in several anthologies, and he participated
in the project "A musa ao espelho" of the collective Pathos
in July of 2006. He has published five previous books,
including poetry, essays and short stories. His
25 anos do
25 de Abril was awarded the
Prémio de Poesia, Campo das Letras.
228.
RODO, Bernardo. A pátria
dos loucos. Queluz de
Baixo: Presença, 2009. Grandes Narrativas, 424. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 236 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-23-4099-1. $30.00
The author's
first novel (and first book?), set in the
mid-twentieth-century Alentejo.
229.
ROSA, Luís. O dia de
Aljubarrota. 2nd ed. Queluz
de Baixo: Presença, 2008. Grandes Narrativas, 412. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 323 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN:
978-972-23-4020-5. $40.00
This historical
novel, in which a soldier present at the Battle of
Aljubarrota recounts his experiences to Fernão Lopes, first
appeared in November 2008; this second edition was
published the same month. The author's historical
novel O claustro
do silêncio (first
published July 2002; the second edition appeared in
September of the same year) was unanimously awarded the
Prémio Vergílio Ferreira. The work reflects on the
political convulsions which took place in Portugal between
the third French invasion (1811), and the fleeing of the
monks from Alcobaça (1833). It demonstrates the author's
profound knowledge of the historiography of the Cistercian
Order. A publisher's blurb states: "Romance histórico por
excelência, recreador e preservador de um património único
e nosso . . . é um belíssimo objecto literário, cuja força
passa pela liberdade com que o autor soube usar os seus
materiais linguísticos." His novel O terramoto
de Lisboa e a invenção do mundo (2004) deals
with Eugénio dos Santos e Carvalho, the architect
responsible for the reconstruction of Lisbon after the
devastating 1755 earthquake. Another historical
novel, O amor
infinito de Pedro e Inês was first
published in November 2005. It went through two editions
during the same month; while a third edition was published
in December. Luís Rosa also has published a novel,
Depois da
guerra in 1991, a work
on business sociology in 1992, and various poems in the
review Descriptor,
1993. The author's first separately published book of
poetry, Poemas de
amar e pensar um pouco, also appeared
in 1993.
230.
RUI, Manuel. Janela de
Sónia, romance. Lisbon:
Caminho, 2009. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de
Língua Portuguesa, 76. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 455 pp. ISBN:
978-972-21-2021-0. $35.00
The author of
this novel was born in Huambo, Angola, in 1941. His best
known work was Quem me
dera ser onda, with a total
of 100,000 copies sold worldwide. First published 1982 (?),
it has had at least ten editions prior to appearing in the
present collection in 2007, was awarded the Prémio Caminho
das Estrelas, adapted for theater and television, and even
published in a bilingual Portuguese-Umbundu edition. Rui
Manuel studied law in Portugal, and practiced the legal
profession there. Following the independence of Angola, he
entered into the cultural life of his country. Professor of
literature, journalist, participant in radio and cinema,
his prose and poetry have been translated into Spanish,
French, English, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech,
Swedish, Finnish, Arabic, and Hebrew. His works
include Regresso
adiado,
Crónica de
um Mujinbo,
1 Morto
& os vivos,
Rioseco,
Da palma da
mão,
Saxafone e
metáfora, and
Um anel na
areia (estória de amor).
231.
SOARES, Luís. Regresso a
Barcelona. Alfragide:
Oficina do Livro, 2009. Colecção Romance. Lge. 8°, orig.
illus. wrps. 274 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-555-435-5.
$35.00
The author was
born in Lisbon in 1972. This is his fourth novel (and
fourth book?).
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