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  • Marcoré

    by Antonio Olavo Pereira ...
    Translated by John Saunders, Alfred Hower ...
    Marcoré, first published in Rio de Janeiro in 1957, won the coveted prize for fiction awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been praised by leading critics and writers in Brazil. The novel has maintained favor with the Brazilian public and has also been published and received with enthusiasm in Portugal.Adopting the intimist, introspective approach characteristic of such writers as ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Empire in Transition

    The Portuguese World in the Time of Camões

    Edited by Alfred Hower ...
    Series series Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series
    The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell ... Read more

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  • When Montezuma Met Cortés

    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

    by Matthew Restall ...
    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

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  • The Double

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    by José Saramago ...
    Translated by Margaret Costa ...
    A "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits ( The Boston Globe).As this novel by the author of Blindness and All the Names begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. ... Read more

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  • Frontiers of Possession

    Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas

    by Tamar Herzog ...
    A "lucid" analysis of the territorial formation of Spain and Portugal in both Europe and the Americas ( Publishers Weekly).Frontiers of Possession asks how territorial borders were established in Europe and the Americas during the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are largely determined by military conflicts and treaties. Focusing on Spanish and ... Read more

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  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

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    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Jose Bonifacio De Andrada E Silva

    The Greatest Man in Brazilian History

    by Ricardo C. Amaral ...
    Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva "The Greatest Man in Brazilian History" This book will introduce to the United States the founding father of Brazil. He is one of the greatest statesman in world history, but he is unknown to the American public. He is the Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and George Washington of Brazil embodied in one person. This book will cover some of the ... Read more

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  • Skylight

    A Novel

    by José Saramago ...
    The denizens of a rundown building in 1940s Lisbon come to sparkling life in this lost early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness.The renowned Portuguese author Jose Saramago was at the beginning of his career when he submitted his novel Skylight for publication in 1953. It then sat lost among stacks of manuscripts for thirty-six years. Published posthumously according to Saramago ... Read more

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  • Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by Jessica Knauss ...
    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Read more

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    by Alberto Manguel ...
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    by Sammis Reachers ...
    Na multidão de opiniões aqui antologiados, o mistério da arte ganha máscaras e desnudamentos, num jogo de mistificação e desmistificação (claro-escuro?) Que dá uma dimensão do grande e envolvente mistério que a arte representa.Venha surpreender-se com os insights desferidos por alguns dos maiores nomes de todas as sete (ou nove? Onze?) Artes. ... Read more

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