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The Brazilians
By Joseph A. Page. Published 1995.

Introduction to Brazil by a law professor who has been an engaged visitor since the 1960s. Themes of race, political power, violence, environment, religious diversity, and popular culture are made accessible through biographical profiles.
A God Strolling in The Cool of The Evening
By Mario de Carvalho. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Published 2001.

A prize-winning novel and best-seller in Portugal is written in the form of a memoir by the well-intentioned governor of a Roman city in Portugal during the empire's decline--a time of political, religious, and social turbulence. Winner of the Pegasus Prize for Literature.
A Samba for Sherlock
By Jo Soares, Clifford E. Landers. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Published 1997.

In 1886, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to Brazil to investigate the theft of a priceless violin, a gift from the Emperor of Brazil to his mistress, and finds himself caught up in a series of grisly homicides amid the seductive charms of the tropics. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.
Brazil - A Cook's Tour
By Christopher Idone. Published 1995.

Christopher Idone, a pioneer of illustrated cookbooks, takes the reader on a fascinataing culinary and cultural journey through the vast and varied landscape of Brazil. Includes more than 100 rich, colorful photographs, a mail-order source guide, and a list of special places to visit in Brazil. 125 4-color photographs.
Brazilian Portuguese Phrasebook
By Marcia Monje de Castro, Lonely Planet Publications Published 2008.

Brazil is at the forefront of the travel boom in Latin America, with over 5 million visitors in 2006 generating an estimated US$4.4 billion in earnings (WTO).
Dom Casmurro
By Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated by John A. Gledson. Contributor Joao Adolfo Hansen. Published 1998.

Like other great nineteenth-century novels - The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary - Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel from the realism of its contemporaries, and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. Far from creating the illusion of an orderly fictional "reality", Dom Casmurro is told by a narrator who is disruptively self-conscious, deeply subjective, and prone to all manner of marvelous digression.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
By Jorge Amado. Published 1975.

"Poetic, comic, human" is how The Washington Post hailed Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, the international classic by Jorge Amado, Brazil's foremost novelist. This captivating fable celebrates heated passions, conjugal harmony, the rhythms of the samba, and the delectable joys of cooking.
In Praise of Lies
By Patricia Melo. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Published 1999.

Written in the tradition of the classic American noir of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, In Praise of Lies is a brilliantly clever, fiendishly funny crime novel about a woman who raises poisonous snakes and the man who loves her enough to attempt murder....Jose Guber is in love with a deadly woman.
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant
By Manuel Antonio De Almeida. Translated by Ronald W. Sousa. Contributor Thomas H. Holloway, Flora Sussekind. Published 1999.

Excellent translation of a Brazilian classic first published as a serial in 1852-53. Sousa captures the vivacity and wit of the original while effectively evoking mood and historical milieu of free lower classes of Rio de Janeiro in early-19th century.
Pantanal South America's Wetland Jewel
By Theo Allofs, Russell A. Mittermeier. Photographs by Theo Allofs. Contributor Russell A. Mittermeier, Theo Allofs, Monica Barcellos Harris, Christina G Mittermeier, Reinaldo Lourival, Jose Maria Cardos Silva, Gustavo A B Fonseca. Published 2005.

A spectacular tour of the world's largest wetland. The Pantanal covers 81,000 square miles in the middle of South America, extending over parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. About half the size of California and 20 times the size of the Everglades, the Pantanal flood plain is the largest wetland network on Earth. Pantanal reveals the abundant wildlife and beauty of this remarkable eco-system, home to some of the most spectacular concentrations of flora and fauna on the planet.
Quincas Borba
By Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Contributor David T. Haberly, Celso Favaretto. Published 1998.

Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Br's Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth-century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political andsocial complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English-speaking readers.
Seeing
By Jose Saramago. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Published 2006.

On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. What's going on? 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. The president proposes that a wall be built around the city to contain the revolution. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? A singular novel from the author of Blindness.
The Book of Disquiet
By Fernando Pessoa. Translated by Richard Zenith. Contributor Richard Zenith. Published 2002.

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. The Portuguese author attributed his work to literary alter egos that he called "heteronyms," each of which had a fully developed identity. When Pessoa died, he left behind a trunk filled with disorderly scraps of unpublished poems and unfinished works, among which was "The Book of Disquiet," Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, "The Book of Disquiet" is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
The Club of Angels
By Luis Fernando Verissimo, Margaret Jull Costa. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Published 2002.

Luis Fernando Verissimo's Club of Angels is an irresistible, enticing book -- almost as irresistible and enticing as the exquisite meals prepared within -- about the sin of gluttony. Written by one of Brazil's leading authors and columnists, Club of Angels was an immediate success there, and has been on the bestseller list since 1998. It tells the story of ten privileged men, who meet every month to dine fabulously and celebrate their friendship and singularity. When their leader, Ramos, dies of AIDS, the narrator Daniel meets his possible replacement -- Lucido -- in a wineshop. Lucido is mysteriously taciturn, but in the privacy of Daniel's kitchen, he recreates the men's favorite dishes, giving them a gastronomic experience like no other.
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
By José Saramago. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Published 1994.

A controversial novel of the life of Jesus Christ portrays his family as complex as anyone's family and with a realism that is filled with visions, dreams, and an omen. 10,000 first printing.
The Illustrious House of Ramires
By Eça de Queirós Translated by Anne Stevens. Contributor V. S. Pritchett. Published 1994.

Eca de Queiros, Illustrious House of Ramires. Ironic comedy from the master of Portuguese realism.
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
By Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Contributor Enylton de Sa Rego, Gilberto Pinheiro Passos. Published 1998.

Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil'sgreatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
The War of The Saints
By Jorge Amado. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Published 1995.

"Dazzling...a tour de force and irrefutable proof of the writer's artistic maturity...a carnival of rhythm and color." -- "Boston Sunday Globe". Jorge Amado has been called one of the great writers of our time. The joyfulness of his storytelling and his celebration of life's sensual pleasures have found him a loyal following. With "The War Of The Saints" he has created an exuberant tale set among the flashing rhythms, intoxicating smells, and bewitching colors of the carnival. The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art. As the boat the bears the image is docking, a miracle occurs and Saint Barbara comes to life, disappearing into the milling crowd on the quay. Somewhere in the city a young woman has fallen in love, and her prudish guardian aunt has locked her away--an act of intolerance that Saint Barbara must redress. And when she casts her spell over the city, no one's life will remain unchanged.
Tieta
By Jorge Amado. Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello. Contributor Moacyr Scliar. Published 2003.

Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly development. For the only way she can stop the factory is to call upon her close connections in Sao Paulo's highest political and financial circles--as only the Madam of the city's ritziest bordello can.
Twelve Fingers
By Jô Soares, Clifford E. Landers. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Published 2001.

From the internationally acclaimed author of A Samba for Sherlock, a delicious romp through the twentieth century with literature's most hapless assassin.It's the story of Dimitri Korozec, who is born with two extra index fingers, and whose schemes to eliminate all the world's tyrants are foiled by his extreme clumsiness. The tone is set with Dimitri's first assignment: to assassinate Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. Unfortunately his fingers get stuck in his gun and someone else gets to start World War I. From there it's on to such places as Rio (where he introduces the Spanish Flu), Chicago (where his goof enables Bugs Moran to escape the St. Valentine's Day Massacre), and Miami (where he inadvertently saves FDR instead of killing him). Along the way, bit players -- Mata Hari, Marie Curie, Picasso, George Raft, Al Capone, and many more -- add to the uncanny coincidences and inspired zaniness.
Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts
By Rubem Fonseca. Translated by Clifford E. Landers. Published 1998.

A grieving film director in Rio is visited by a carnival dancer who leaves him with a box full of precious gems. A few days later the dancer is dead, a man in a raincoat lurks outside the director's door, and a mysterious German producer surfaces with an irresistible offer: to make a film based on a story by the director's favorite author, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel. From this elemental framework the adventure begins.Dodging a horde of local smugglers, the director soon finds himself fleeing to Berlin, where a web of literary and political skulduggery awaits him. Rumor has it that an unpublished Babel manuscript has survived the Stalinist purges and is now being shopped by a lovesick Soviet bureaucrat. Forsaking caution, money, and at times his own sanity, the director makes a foray into East Berlin in pursuit of the one true thing that still stirs his heart.Already a bestseller in Italy, Mexico, and his native Brazil, Rubem Fonseca's newest novel is a rollicking adventure into the high camp world of carnival, the intricate history of precious gems, and the subtle craft of filmmaking. It is also a piercing account of a man whose life is resurrected by art just when tragedy threatens to paralyze him.