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Titulo: Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
Autor:  Carrie Tiffany
Origem: Austrália
Ano da edição original: 2005
Editora: Pan Macmillan
Páginas: 256
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0330421913

Sinopse: In this sensual, witty, and startlingly original first novel, Jean Finnegan searches for her place in a tumultuous world wracked by the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. Carrie Tiffany captures the frailty and beauty of the human condition and vividly evokes the hope and disappointment of an era.
Billowing dust and information, the government "Better Farming Train" slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing advice to the people living on the land. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts, from Sister Crock, the prim head of "women's subjects," to Mr. Ohno, the Japanese chicken specialist, to Robert Pettergree, a scientist with an unusual taste for soil. Amid the swaying cars full of cows, pigs, and wheat, a strange and swift seduction occurs between Robert and Jean. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of transforming the land through science.

In luminous prose, Tiffany writes about the challenges of farming, the character of small towns, the stark and terrifying beauty of the Australian landscape, and the fragile relationships among man, science, and nature. Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living is a passionate and heartbreaking novel from an astonishing new writer.

A autora e a obra: Carrie Tiffany é uma escritora australiana, nascida em Inglaterra,  atualmente com 49 anos.

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Titulo: Master Georgie
Autor: Beryl Bainbridge
Origem: Inglaterra
Ano da edição original: 1998
Editora: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Páginas: 190
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-7867-0563-9

Sinopse: The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel from Beryl Bainbridge, the distinguished author of The Birthday Boys and Every Man For Himself. A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted maid, a wily street boy who takes advantage of his sexual ambiguity, and his alternately philosophical and libidinous brother-in-law in this terse, searing novel that takes them from the comfortable parlors of Victorian Liverpool to the horrific battlefields of the Crimean War.

"An exquisite dissector of human folly" - Time
"Striking . . . in its companionable alliance between wry, deadpan humor and nightmarish horror" - New York Times Book Review
"Master Georgie can be read in an hour or two, yet it may reverberate in the reader's consciousness long after its poignant final page." - Boston Globe
"Easily the most impressive novel I've read this year, and my admiration for it is unqualified." - Mordecai Richler, National Post (Canada)
"Remarkable . . . A tour de force of compressed plotting . . . by turns funny and appalling" - New York Times
"A memorable novel" - Atlantic Monthly
"Stunning" - The New Yorker
"A virtually flawless blend of elegant prose, ironic observation, and impeccably controlled narrative momentum" - Publishers Weekly

A autora e a obra: Beryl Bainbridge foi uma autora inglesa falecida em 2010 aos 77 anos. Deixou cerca de 20 romances, para além de livros de contos e não ficção. Tem 2 livros editados em Portugal, Segundo Queeney (Europa América, 2000) e Salve-se Quem Puder (Europa América, 2003). Este seu Master Georgie ganhou o WH Smith Literary Award e foi finalista do Booker Prize. Orange Prize for Fiction e do International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: A Dance to the Music of Time
Autor: Anthony Powell
Origem: Inglaterra
Ano da edição original: 1951-1975
Editora: Heinemann
Páginas: n/a
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: n/a

Sinopse: A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid 20th century.


O autor e a obra: Anthony Powell  foi um escritor inglês falecido em 2000 aos 94 anos. A Dance to the Music of Time é como indicado na sinopse um conjunto de 12 romances:

A Question of Upbringing – (1951)
A Buyer's Market – (1952)
The Acceptance World – (1955)
At Lady Molly's – (1957)
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant – (1960)
The Kindly Ones – (1962)
The Valley of Bones – (1964)
The Soldier's Art – (1966)
The Military Philosophers – (1968)
Books Do Furnish a Room – (1971)
Temporary Kings – (1973)
Hearing Secret Harmonies – (1975)

Nunca foi alvo de tradução em Portugal.

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Titulo: Buddha Da
Autor: Anne Donovan
Origem: Escócia
Ano da edição original: 2003
Editora: Canongate
Páginas: 330
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 1-84195-451-9

Sinopse: Anne Marie's dad, a Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist Center, no one takes him seriously. But as Jimmy becomes more involved in a search for the spiritual, his beliefs start to come into conflict with the needs of his wife, Liz. Cracks appear in their apparently happy family life, and the ensuing events change the lives of each family member.

A autora e a obra: Anne Donovan é uma escritora escocesa atualmente com 63 anos. Com este livro a autora foi nomeada para o Orange Prize, Whitbread Book Award e International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: The Long Song
Autor: Andrea Levy
Origem: Inglaterra
Ano da edição original: 2010
Editora: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Páginas: 313
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0374192170

Sinopse: Told in the irresistibly willful and intimate voice of Miss July, with some editorial assistance from her son, Thomas, The Long Song is at once defiant, funny, and shocking. The child of a field slave on the Amity sugar plantation in Jamaica, July lives with her mother until Mrs. Caroline Mortimer, a recently transplanted English widow, decides to move her into the great house and rename her “Marguerite.”

Resourceful and mischievous, July soon becomes indispensable to her mistress. Together they live through the bloody Baptist war, followed by the violent and chaotic end of slavery. Taught to read and write so that she can help her mistress run the business, July remains bound to the plantation despite her “freedom.” It is the arrival of a young English overseer, Robert Goodwin, that will dramatically change life in the great house for both July and her mistress. Prompted and provoked by her son’s persistent questioning, July’s resilience and heartbreak are gradually revealed in this extraordinarily powerful story of slavery, revolution, freedom, and love.

A autora e a obra: Este é o segundo livro de Andrea Levy que coloco nesta rubrica. Uma autora inglesa de 58 anos, filha de pais jamaicanos que tenho muita curiosidade em ler. Nenhum dos seus 5 romances está editado em Portugal. Com este The Long Song, a autora venceu o Walter Scott Prize, sendo ainda nomeada para o Man Booker Prize, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award e Orange Prize for Fiction.

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Titulo: The Ancestor Game
Autor: Alex Miller
Origem: Austrália
Ano da edição original: 1992
Editora: Penguin
Páginas: 302
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-14-015987-8

Sinopse: In this novel--winner of Australia's top literary prize--the lives, the pasts, and the imaginations of the three central characters are powerfully and poetically interwoven. As the riveting history of each unfolds, the reader is drawn into an intricate, often mysterious series of paths traversing centuries and continents.

O autor e a obra: Alex Miller é um escritor australiano atualmente com 77 anos. Esta sinopse é curtinha e pouco diz sobre o livro, mas se virmos as criticas e o parecer de outros escritores parece ser um livro muito bom. Ganhou o Miles Franklin Literary Award, e o Commonwealth Writers Prize.

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Titulo: The Folding Star
Autor: Alan Hollinghurst
Origem: Inglaterra
Ano da edição original: 1994
Editora: Chatto & Windus
Páginas: 320
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 978-0-7011-5913-9

Sinopse: Alan Hollinghurst’s hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost immediately he falls in love with one of his pupils, but can only console himself with other, illicit affairs. With this novel, Hollinghurst exposes us fearlessly to the consequences of unfulfillable, annihilating desire.




O autor e a obra: Alan Hollinghurst é um autor que dispensa grandes apresentações, mas é inglês e tem atualmente 60 anos. Com 3 dos seus livros editados em Portugal, este The Folding Star nunca foi alvo de tradução mesmo tendo ganho o James Tait Black Memorial Prize, e nomeado para o Booker Prize e IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: Bitter Fruit
Autor: Achmat Dangor
Origem: África do Sul
Ano da edição original: 2001
Editora: Kwela Books
Páginas: 288
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 978-0795700972

Sinopse: With the publication of Kafka's Curse, Achmat Dangor established himself as an utterly singular voice in South African fiction. His new novel, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, is a clear-eyed, witty, yet deeply serious look at South Africa's political history and its damaging legacy in the lives of those who live there.
The last time Silas Ali encountered Lieutenant Du Boise, Silas was locked in the back of a police van and the lieutenant was conducting a vicious assault on Silas's wife, Lydia, in revenge for her husband's participation in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. When Silas sees Du Boise by chance twenty years later, as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to deliver its report, crimes from the past erupt into the present, splintering the Alis' fragile peace. Meanwhile Silas and Lydia's son, Mikey, a thoroughly contemporary young hip-hop lothario, contends in unforeseen ways with his parents' pasts.
A harrowing story of a brittle family on the crossroads of history and a fearless skewering of the pieties of revolutionary movements, Bitter Fruit is a cautionary tale of how we do, or do not, address the past's deepest wounds.

O autor e a obra: Achmat Dangor é um escritor sul africano de 67 anos. Escreveu vários romances mas nenhum foi traduzido em Portugal. Este Bitter Fruit foi nomeado para o Man Booker Prize e para o IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Hoje o Sem Tradução é duplo, escolhi 2 livros da mesma autora....

Titulo: Paradise
Autor: Toni Morrison
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1997
Editora: Alfred A. Knopf
Páginas: 318
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-679-43374-0

Sinopse: "They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.

Titulo: Song of Solomon
Autor: Toni Morrison
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1977
Editora: Alfred A. Knopf
Páginas: 337
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-452-26011-6

Sinopse: Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.


A autora e a obra: Toni Morrison é uma autora norte americana de 83 anos. Galardoada com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1993 e com apenas 10 romances escritos, não compreendo como apenas 3 destes se encontram traduzidos em Portugal.

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Titulo: Dirt Music
Autor: Tim Winton
Origem: Austrália
Ano da edição original: 2001
Editora: Picador
Páginas: 465
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-330-36323-9

Sinopse: Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman, a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion in it, too much memory and pain.

One morning Fox is observed poaching by Georgie Jutland. Chance, or a kind of willed recklessness, has brought Georgie into the life and home of Jim Buckridge, the most prosperous fisherman in the area and a man who loathes poachers, Fox above all. But she's never fully settled into Jim's grand house on the water or into the inbred community with its history of violent secrets. After Georgie encounters Fox, her tentative hold on conventional life is severed. Neither of them would call it love, but they can't stay away from each other no matter how dangerous it is, and out on White Point it is very dangerous.

Set in the dramatic landscape of Western Australia, Dirt Music is a love story about people stifled by grief and regret; a novel about the odds of breaking with the past and about the lure of music. Dirt music, Fox tells Georgie, is "anything you can play on a verandah or porch, without electricity." Even in the wild, Luther cannot escape it. There is, he discovers, no silence in nature.

Ambitious, perfectly calibrated, Dirt Music resonates with suspense and supercharged emotion, and it confirms Tim Winton's status as the preeminent Australian novelist of his generation.


O autor e a obra: Tim Winton é um é um autor australiano de 54 anos. Tem 11 romances publicados assim como alguns livros de contos e teatro, nenhum editado em Portugal. Este Dirt Music venceu o Miles Franklin Award, ficou na shorlist do Man Booker Prizes e foi ainda nomeado para o International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: All the King's Men
Autor: Robert Penn Warren
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1946
Editora: Harcourt, Brace & Company
Páginas: 464
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: --

Sinopse: More than just a classic political novel, Warren’s tale of power and corruption in the Depression-era South is a sustained meditation on the unforeseen consequences of every human act, the vexing connectedness of all people and the possibility—it’s not much of one—of goodness in a sinful world. Willie Stark, Warren’s lightly disguised version of Huey Long, the onetime Louisiana strongman/governor, begins as a genuine tribune of the people and ends as a murderous populist demagogue. Jack Burden is his press agent, who carries out the boss’s orders, first without objection, then in the face of his own increasingly troubled conscience. And the politics? For Warren, that’s simply the arena most likely to prove that man is a fallen creature. Which it does.



O autor e a obra: Robert Penn Warren foi um escritor norte americano falecido em 1989 aos 84 anos. Deixou vários romances e poesia e foi o único autor até hoje a ganhar o Pulitzer Prize em ambas as áreas. O de romance foi ganho com este All the King's Men. Que eu tenha conhecimento o único dos seus livros que se encontra editado em Portugal é "O cavaleiro da noite" (Estudios Cor, 1959).

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Titulo: Eucalyptus
Autor: Murray Bail
Origem: Austrália
Ano da edição original: 1998
Editora: Text Publishing
Páginas: 264
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 1-875847-63-4

Sinopse: The gruff widower Holland has two possessions he cherishes above all others: his sprawling property of eucalyptus trees and his ravishingly beautiful daughter, Ellen.

When Ellen turns nineteen Holland makes an announcement: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each of the hundreds of gum trees on his property.

Ellen is uninterested in the many suitors who arrive from around the world, until one afternoon she chances on a strange, handsome young man resting under a Coolibah tree. In the days that follow, he spins dozens of tales set in cities, deserts, and faraway countries. As the contest draws to a close, Ellen and the stranger's meetings become more erotic, the stories more urgent. Murray Bail's rich narrative is filled with unexpected wisdom about art, feminine beauty, landscape, and language. Eucalyptus is a shimmering love story that affirms the beguiling power of storytelling itself.


O autor e a obra: Murray Bail é um é um autor australiano de 72 anos. Publicou 5 romances, 2 livros de contos e alguns de não ficção, nenhum editado em Portugal. Este Eucalyptus venceu o Miles Franklin Award assim como o  Commonwealth Writers' Prize sendo ainda nomeado para o International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: City of Bohane
Autor: Kevin Barry
Origem: Irlanda
Ano da edição original: 2011
Editora: Vintage
Páginas: 288
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 9780099549154

Sinopse: Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are the posh parts of town, but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin' that the city really lives.

For years, the city has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air. They say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight... And then there's his mother.

City of Bohane is a visionary novel that blends influences from film and the graphic novel, from Trojan beats and calypso rhythms, from Celtic myth and legend, from fado and the sagas, and from all the great inheritance of Irish literature. A work of mesmerising imagination and vaulting linguistic invention, it is a taste of the glorious and new.

O autor e a obra: Kevin Barry é um autor irlandês de 51 anos. Escreveu apenas 2 livros de contos e este livro que é o seu primeiro romance. Nenhum dos 3 se encontra editado em Portugal, mas este livro ganhou o International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, o Authors' Club First Novel Award e foi nomeado para o Costa Book of the Year.

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Titulo: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Autor: Ken Kesey
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1962
Editora: Viking Press
Páginas: 320
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 9780451163967

Sinopse: In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless oppnonents: Nurse Ratched, back by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.

O autor e a obra: Ken Kesey era um autor norte americano, falecido em 2001 aos 66 anos de idade. Escreveu 7 romances e mais alguns livros de ensaios, contos e teatro. Este One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest é o mais conhecido dos seus livros, tendo dado origem ao filme de 1975, Voando Sobre Um Ninho de Cucos, protagonizado Jack Nicholson. Embora não tenha ganho prémios, parece-me imperdoável que nenhum dos seus livros tenha sido alvo de tradução em Portugal.

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Titulo: The Buddha in the Attic
Autor: Julie Otsuka
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 2011
Editora: Knopf Publishing Group
Páginas: 144
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 9780307700001

Sinopse: Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.

In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.

O autor e a obra: Julie Otsuka é uma escritora norte americana de origens japonesas, de 52 anos. Este é o seu segundo livro, sendo que o primeiro, Quando o Imperador Era Divino, foi editado em Portugal em 2006 pela Temas e Debates. Este The Buddha in the Attic que eu saiba, não foi alvo de tradução e ganhou o PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, sendo também finalista do International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award e do National Book Award for Fiction.

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Titulo: How Late It Was, How Late
Autor: James Kelman
Origem: Escócia
Ano da edição original: 1994
Editora: Secker and Warburg
Páginas: 384
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-7493-9883-3

Sinopse: One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind. And things get worse: his girlfriend disappears, the police question him for a crime they won't name, and his stab at disability compensation embroils him in the Kafkaesque red tape of the welfare bureaucracy. Told in the utterly uncensored language of the Scottish working class, this is a dark and subtly political parable of struggle and survival, rich with irony and black humor.

O autor e a obra: James Kelman é um escritor escocês de 68 anos. Tem mais de 20 livros editados entre os quais 8 romances, vários de contos, teatro e ensaios políticos. Que eu tenha conhecimento nenhum dos seus livros se encontra editado em Portugal. Este How Late It Was, How Late ganhou o Man Booker Prize for Fiction em 1994 e foi finalista do International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: A Death in the Family
Autor: James Agee
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1957
Editora: David McDowell
Páginas: 339
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: --

Sinopse: The novel is based on the events that occurred to Agee in 1916 when his father went out of town to see his own father, who had suffered a heart attack. During the return trip, Agee's father was killed in a car accident. The novel provides a portrait of life in Knoxville, Tennessee, showing how such a loss affects the young widow, her two children, her atheist father and the dead man's alcoholic brother.



O autor e a obra: James Agee foi um escritor, poeta, jornalista, argumentista e critico de cinema norte americano. Morreu aos 45 anos, a 16 de Maio de 1955, 2 dias antes do 39º aniversário da morte do seu pai, tema deste livro. James Agee começou a escrever este livro em 1948 e à data da sua morte ainda não estava finalizado, tendo sido publicado postumamente em 1957 com a ajuda do editor David McDowell. Ganhou o Pulitzer Prize postumamente em 1958. Que eu tenha conhecimento nem este nem nenhum dos seus livros foi editado em Portugal.

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Titulo: The Autobiography of My Mother
Autor: Jamaica Kincaid
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 1996
Editora: Farrar Straus Giroux
Páginas: 228
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0452274664

Sinopse: Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in a harsh, loveless world after her mother dies in childbirth. Xuela’s narrative provides a rich, vivid exploration of the Caribbean and the pervasive influence of colonialism. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.

A autora e a obra: Jamaica Kincaid é uma escritora nascida na ilha Antígua, naturalizada norte americana. Tem atualmente 65 anos e mais de 20 livros publicados. Este The Autobiography of My Mother ganhou o International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, o National Book Critics Circle Award, e foi finalista do  PEN/Faulkner Award e do Orange Prize for Fiction. Que eu tenha conhecimento nenhum dos seus livros foi editado/traduzido em Portugal.

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Titulo: Lord of Misrule
Autor: Jaimy Gordon
Origem: EUA
Ano da edição original: 2010
Editora: McPherson & Company
Páginas: 294
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0929701836

Sinopse: A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track .
 Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse -- or cash a bet -- and run before anyone’s the wiser. At his side is Maggie Koderer, who finds herself powerfully drawn to the gorgeous, used up animals of the cheap track. She also lands in the cross-hairs of leading trainer Joe Dale Bigg. But as news of Tommy’s plan spreads, from veteran groom Medicine Ed, to loan shark Two-Tie, to Kidstuff the blacksmith, it’s Maggie, not Tommy or the handlers of legendary stakes horse Lord of Misrule, who will find what's valuable in a world where everything has a price.

A autora e a obra: Jaimy Gordon é uma escritora norte americana, prestes a completar 70 anos. Tem 8  livros publicados, nenhum dos quais traduzido em Portugal. Este Lord of Misrule é o seu trabalho mais recente. O livro ganhou o  National Book Award for Fiction, e foi nomeado para o PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Orange Prize for Fiction e International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Titulo: Larry's Party
Autor: Carol Shields
Origem: Canadá
Ano da edição original: 1997
Editora: Alfred A. Knopf, Canada
Páginas: 339
Língua original: Inglês
ISBN: 0-679-30877-6

Sinopse: Larry Weller, born in Winnipeg in 1950, is like a lot of people. He never really liked his first name; "its Larryness has always seemed an imprisonment and a sly wink toward its most conspicuous rhyme: ordinary... He was just one more citizen of the Larry nation, those barbecuers, those volunteer firemen, those wearers of muscle shirts." But Larry Weller is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us a resonant and unforgettable portrait of a man - a sensuously detailed CAT scan of his life. In episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly, Larry emerges from a dreamy adolescence equipped with a Floral Arts degree from Red River College and journeys toward the millennium. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, he moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties, and the lean, mean nineties, adapting to society's changing expectations of men. Shields' elegant prose turns the trivial into the momentous as we follow Larry through the tribulations of two marriages and divorces, his relationship with his parents and their private tragedy, the birth of his son, the development of his career as a landscape gardener, and his agonizing mid-life crisis. And throughout, we witness his deepening passion for garden mazes - so like life, with their teasing treachery and promise of reward. From the moment that he first recognizes the man he could be, throughout the completion of his quite, stubborn search of self, Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom.

A autora e a obra: Carol Shields era uma autora canadiana falecida em 2003 aos 68 anos. Deixou cerca de 10 romances, para além de livros de contos, poesia, teatro e uma biografia. Tem 2 livros editados em Portugal, A memória das pedras (Presença 1998) e A menos que (Temas e Debates 2003). Este seu Larry's Party ganhou o Orange Prize for Fiction e foi finalista do Scotiabank Giller Prize e do International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.