30+ [Must Read] Popular Books On Portugal

Oxford World's Classics 1998 is the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encounter with Africa and India is the very essence of Oxford World's Classics 1998 is the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encounter with Africa and India is the very essence of Camoes's vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introd ... [Read More]

Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment, he sees an actor who looks exactly like him - or, more specifically, exac ... [Read More]

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or ev ... [Read More]

A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin t ... [Read More]

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere la literatura del pasado. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con el joven M Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere la literatura del pasado. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con el joven Monteiro Rossi. Y la intensa relación que se establece entre el viejo periodista, Monteiro y su novia Marta cristalizará en una crisis pe ... [Read More]

"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able "If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History ... [Read More]

Em meados do século XVI o rei D. João III oferece a seu primo, o arquiduque Maximiliano da Áustria, genro do imperador Carlos V, um elefante indiano que há dois anos se encontra em Belém, vindo da Índia. Do facto histórico que foi essa oferta não abundam os testemunhos. Mas há alguns. Com base nesses escassos elementos, e sobretudo com uma poderosa imaginação de ficcionista Em meados do século XVI o rei D. João III oferece a seu primo, o arquiduque Maximiliano da Áustria, genro do imperador Carlos V, um elefante indiano que há dois anos se encontra em Belém, vindo da Índia. Do facto histórico que foi essa oferta não abundam os testemunhos. Mas há alguns. Com base nesses escassos elementos, e sobretudo com uma poderosa imaginação de ficcionista que já nos deu obras-primas como Memorial do Convento ou O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis, José Saramago coloca agora n ... [Read More]

Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - "O Ramalhete," cujo nome tem origem ... [Read More]

The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic Marcenda, but it is Lydia, the hotel chamber maid who makes and shares his bed. His old friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa, returns to see him, still wearing the suit he was buried in six weeks earlier. It is 1936, the clouds of Fascism are gathering ominously ... [Read More]

Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obse Senhor José is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death, that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor José sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about hi ... [Read More]

This is a skeptic' s journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago' s tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. ... [Read More]

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? I From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl wi ... [Read More]

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially mass celebration. Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially mass celebration. Flags are hung out on balconies; people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home� ... [Read More]

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquie Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."Published for the ... [Read More]

From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their processio ... [Read More]

The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path was Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African coasts. Directly in their path was Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. But this was only the b ... [Read More]

«Um companheiro de Auschwitz pergunta a Primo Levi por que motivo já não se preocupa com a higiene. Ele responde simplesmente: "Para quê, se daqui a meia hora estarei de novo a trabalhar com sacos de carvão?" É desse companheiro que recebe a primeira e talvez principal lição de sobrevivência: "Lavarmo-nos é reagir, é não deixar que nos reduzam a animais; é lutar para viver «Um companheiro de Auschwitz pergunta a Primo Levi por que motivo já não se preocupa com a higiene. Ele responde simplesmente: "Para quê, se daqui a meia hora estarei de novo a trabalhar com sacos de carvão?" É desse companheiro que recebe a primeira e talvez principal lição de sobrevivência: "Lavarmo-nos é reagir, é não deixar que nos reduzam a animais; é lutar para viver, para poder contar, para testemunhar; é manter a última faculdade do ser humano: a faculdade de negar o nosso consent ... [Read More]

O romance de José Eduardo Agualusa conta a vida fantástica de Dona Ana de Sousa, a Rainha Ginga (1583-1663), cujo título real em quimbundo, "Ngola", deu origem ao nome português para aquela região de África. É a história de uma relação de amor e de combate permanente entre Angola e Portugal, narrada por um padre pernambucano que atravessou o mar e recorda personagens maravi O romance de José Eduardo Agualusa conta a vida fantástica de Dona Ana de Sousa, a Rainha Ginga (1583-1663), cujo título real em quimbundo, "Ngola", deu origem ao nome português para aquela região de África. É a história de uma relação de amor e de combate permanente entre Angola e Portugal, narrada por um padre pernambucano que atravessou o mar e recorda personagens maravilhosos e esquecidos da nossa história - tendo como elemento central a Rainha Ginga e o seu significado cultural, religios ... [Read More]

Um jovem tradutor sofre com a ausência da noiva que partiu para longe. Na cidade onde vive, atormentado pela mesquinhez e por idiotas bem-sucedidos, procura uma solução para a sua existência. Felizmente, há sempre uma saída. A escrita do romance faz justiça aos delírios do jovem tradutor e ao absurdo da sua situação. Uma crítica mordaz a uma sociedade longe no tempo mas onde Um jovem tradutor sofre com a ausência da noiva que partiu para longe. Na cidade onde vive, atormentado pela mesquinhez e por idiotas bem-sucedidos, procura uma solução para a sua existência. Felizmente, há sempre uma saída. A escrita do romance faz justiça aos delírios do jovem tradutor e ao absurdo da sua situação. Uma crítica mordaz a uma sociedade longe no tempo mas onde facilmente reconhecemos tiques e vícios dos nossos dias. ...more ... [Read More]

A sweeping story of 1492 Spain, exploring how what we know about the world shapes our map of life Valencia, 1492. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issue an order expelling all Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity. Amalia Cresques, daughter of a Jewish mapmaker whose services were so valuable that his faith had been ignored, can no longer evade the throne. She must l A sweeping story of 1492 Spain, exploring how what we know about the world shapes our map of life Valencia, 1492. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issue an order expelling all Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity. Amalia Cresques, daughter of a Jewish mapmaker whose services were so valuable that his faith had been ignored, can no longer evade the throne. She must leave her beloved atlas, her house, her country, forever. As Amalia remembers her past, living as a converso, hiding her faith, she must decide whe ... [Read More]

A relação entre dois irmãos, um deles deficiente mental, que têm de aprender a viver juntos. Com a morte dos pais, é preciso decidir com quem fica Miguel, o filho de 40 anos que nasceu com síndrome de Down. É então que o irmão – um professor universitário divorciado e misantropo – surpreende (e até certo ponto alivia) a família, chamando a si a grande responsabilidade. Tem A relação entre dois irmãos, um deles deficiente mental, que têm de aprender a viver juntos. Com a morte dos pais, é preciso decidir com quem fica Miguel, o filho de 40 anos que nasceu com síndrome de Down. É então que o irmão – um professor universitário divorciado e misantropo – surpreende (e até certo ponto alivia) a família, chamando a si a grande responsabilidade. Tem apenas mais um ano do que Miguel, e a recordação do afecto e da cumplicidade que ambos partilharam na inf ... [Read More]

Primeiro livro da trilogia As Areias do Imperador, Mulheres de cinzas é um romance histórico sobre a época em que o sul de Moçambique era governado por Ngungunyane (ou Gungunhane, como ficou conhecido pelos portugueses), o último dos líderes do Estado de Gaza - segundo maior império no continente comandado por um africano. Em fins do século XIX, o sargento português Germano Primeiro livro da trilogia As Areias do Imperador, Mulheres de cinzas é um romance histórico sobre a época em que o sul de Moçambique era governado por Ngungunyane (ou Gungunhane, como ficou conhecido pelos portugueses), o último dos líderes do Estado de Gaza - segundo maior império no continente comandado por um africano. Em fins do século XIX, o sargento português Germano de Melo foi enviado ao vilarejo de Nkokolani para a batalha contra o imperador que ameaçava o domínio colonial. Ali o ... [Read More]

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the surviva From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a lo ... [Read More]

Numa estrada adormecida da Galiza, dois homens atropelam um javali. A visão do animal morto na estrada levará um deles — Saldaña Paris, um jovem poeta mexicano de olhos azuis inquietos — a puxar o primeiro fio do novelo da sua vida. Instigado pelas confissões desconjuntadas do poeta, o seu companheiro de viagem — um professor universitário divorciado — irá tentar descobrir Numa estrada adormecida da Galiza, dois homens atropelam um javali. A visão do animal morto na estrada levará um deles — Saldaña Paris, um jovem poeta mexicano de olhos azuis inquietos — a puxar o primeiro fio do novelo da sua vida. Instigado pelas confissões desconjuntadas do poeta, o seu companheiro de viagem — um professor universitário divorciado — irá tentar descobrir o que está por trás da persistente melancolia de Saldaña Paris. A viagem de descoberta começa com a leitura de ... [Read More]

Um homem sofre desmesuradamente com as notícias que lê nos jornais, com todas as tragédias humanas a que assiste. Um dia depara-se com o facto de não se lembrar do seu primeiro beijo, dos jogos de bola nas ruas da aldeia ou de ver uma mulher nua. Outro homem, seu vizinho, passa bem com as desgraças do mundo, mas perde a cabeça quando vê um chapéu pousado no lugar errado. C Um homem sofre desmesuradamente com as notícias que lê nos jornais, com todas as tragédias humanas a que assiste. Um dia depara-se com o facto de não se lembrar do seu primeiro beijo, dos jogos de bola nas ruas da aldeia ou de ver uma mulher nua. Outro homem, seu vizinho, passa bem com as desgraças do mundo, mas perde a cabeça quando vê um chapéu pousado no lugar errado. Contudo, talvez por se lembrar bem da magia do primeiro beijo – e constatar o quanto a sua vida se afastou dela – decide ajudar ... [Read More]

Historiens berättare är gorillan Sally Jones, maskinist på lastskutan Hudson Queen. Hon och hennes vän, sjömannen som kallas för Chiefen, är strandsatta i Lissabon. Där blir de inlurade i en smugglingsaffär som slutar illa. Hudson Queen går under och Chiefen blir oskyldigt dömd för mordet på den skugglike Alphonse Morro. För Sally Jones börjar en lång och svår kamp, både f Historiens berättare är gorillan Sally Jones, maskinist på lastskutan Hudson Queen. Hon och hennes vän, sjömannen som kallas för Chiefen, är strandsatta i Lissabon. Där blir de inlurade i en smugglingsaffär som slutar illa. Hudson Queen går under och Chiefen blir oskyldigt dömd för mordet på den skugglike Alphonse Morro. För Sally Jones börjar en lång och svår kamp, både för sin egen överlevnad och för att rentvå Chiefen. Hon har mäktiga krafter emot sig. Krafter som ... [Read More]

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure. Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás’s quest. Fifty years on, a Can ... [Read More]

A narradora de O paraíso são os outros é uma menina intrigada com um estranho comportamento dos animais – e dos humanos: a necessidade de viver em casal. Ela observa que há casais de pinguins, golfinhos e também de homem com mulher, homem com homem, mulher com mulher. “Tudo por causa do amor.” A inspiração para este livro surgiu de uma visita ao ateliê do artista Nino Cais A narradora de O paraíso são os outros é uma menina intrigada com um estranho comportamento dos animais – e dos humanos: a necessidade de viver em casal. Ela observa que há casais de pinguins, golfinhos e também de homem com mulher, homem com homem, mulher com mulher. “Tudo por causa do amor.” A inspiração para este livro surgiu de uma visita ao ateliê do artista Nino Cais que trabalhava em fotos antigas de casamentos colando pedras de bijuteria infantil sobre os rostos dos casais r ... [Read More]

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows the From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes ... [Read More]

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within th Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power. A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creati ... [Read More]