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  • Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach

    par Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone’s Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer.The year is 2011, and our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood. Divided into three sections, ... En savoir plus

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  • Commission of Tears

    par Antonio Lobo Antunes ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Collections series Portuguese Literature
    António Lobo Antunes’s twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was ... En savoir plus

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  • Backlands

    The Canudos Campaign

    par Euclides da Cunha ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literatureWritten by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $6.99 CAD Maintenant $1.99 CAD

  • The Lady of Solitude

    par Paula Parisot ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe, Clifford E. Landers ...
    Collections series Brazilian Literature
    The Lady of Solitude projects a fresh and daring new voice on to the Brazilian literary scene. These transgressive and highly charged erotic stories are all written from a woman's point of view and they offer an unexpected perspective on the world, sex and desire in a changing Brazilian and global context. That is not to say that all of Parisot's characters are strong, emancipated and resolute: ... En savoir plus

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  • The Last Twist of the Knife

    par João Almino ...
    Traduit par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Collections series Brazilian Literature
    After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Brasília to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil’s northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to buy a ranch and farm cotton, but unresolved childhood obsessions, fantasies, traumas resurface, threatening to overwhelm his very sense of identity. Consumed with thoughts of revenge against the man ... En savoir plus

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  • Esau and Jacob

    par Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Collections series Library of Latin America
    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • Esau and Jacob

    par Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Collections series Library of Latin America
    Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the monarchical and republican ideals. Instead of a heroic biblical fable, Machado de Assis gives us a ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Contested Theological Authority of Thomas Aquinas

    The Controversies Between Hervaeus Natalis and Durandus of St. Pourcain, 1307-1323

    par Elizabeth Lowe ...
    Collections series Studies in Medieval History and Culture
    This book explains how the authority Thomas Aquinas's theological teachings grew out of the doctrinal controversies surrounding it within the Dominican Order. The adoption and eventual promotion of the teachings of Aquinas by the Order of Preachers ran counter to every other current running through the late thirteenth-century Church; most scholastics, the Dominican Order included, were wary of the ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

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  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    par Giorgio Agamben ...
    Traduit par Adam Kotsko ...
    Collections series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... En savoir plus

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  • Conquistador

    Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

    par Buddy Levy ...
    A thrilling narrative of the larger-than-life clash between a relentless conqueror and a formidable king that led to the destruction of the Aztec empire, from the award-winning historian and author of River of Darkness“Fascinating . . . [an] almost unbelievable story of missionary zeal, greed, cruelty, and courage.”—The Wall Street Journal“A sweeping and majestic history of a clash of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

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  • The King's Two Bodies

    A Study in Medieval Political Theology

    par Ernst Kantorowicz, William Chester Jordan ...
    Collections series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the postmortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, “The king is dead. Long live the king.” In The King’s Two Bodies, Ernst Kantorowicz traces the historical dilemma ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Magdalena

    River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia

    par Wade Davis ...
    A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade-- that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and futureTravelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

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