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  • Chronicle of the Murdered House

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Lúcio Cardoso ...
    This never-before-translated classic of Brazilian, and gay, literature is a Faulknerian saga depicting the unraveling of a traditional patriarchal family. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Cool Pool Games for Children

    Fun and Fitness for Swimmers of All Levels

    by Kim Rodomista ...
    Illustrated by Robin Patterson ...
    Series series SmartFun Activity Books
    The benefits of water exercise and play have been well documented, and it's never too early to begin. This practical guide for children 4 and above contains games and activities for every skill level. All 101 games - from variations on classics like Follow the Leader to new ones like Message in a Bottle - are simple, easy to learn, and enjoyable for youngsters to play over and over again. Best of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dom Casmurro

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur.Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the hilarious, maddening, and utterly compelling ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Memorial de Ayres

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    In the final novel by one of the greatest writers in the Americas, an aging diplomat bears witness to the shifting cultural tides of nineteenth-century BrazilJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis has been hailed as one of Latin America’s greatest writers, a progenitor of modernism and a masterful ironist known for his inspired critiques of nineteenth-century Brazil. Memorial de Ayres is his final novel, ... Read more

    $19.89 USD

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  • The Girl from the Sea and Other Stories

    by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    The stories included in this collection are classics of children's literature and have been cherished by generations of Portuguese children. This is the first time these stories have been translated into English. The author is one of Portugal's greatest poets and, like her poetry, these stories are filled with her delight and pleasure in nature, gardens and the sea, as well as her keen sense of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Machado de Assis: 26 Stories

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    This “watershed collection” (Wall Street Journal) now appears in an essential selected paperback edition, with twenty-six of Machado’s finest stories.Widely acclaimed as “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” (Susan Sontag), as well as “another Kafka” (Allen Ginsberg), Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was famous in his time for his psychologically probing tales of fin-de-siècle Rio de ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mechanism

    A Crime Network So Deep it Brought Down a Nation

    by Vladimir Netto ...
    Translated by Robin Patterson ...
    INTRODUCTION BY MISHA GLENNY**, author of McMafia**A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history.When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Quincas Borba

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    A satirical tale of a young man flush with newfound wealth who promptly gets swindled, Quincas Borba is an inspired critique of nineteenth-century Brazil.Hailed in his lifetime as one of Latin America’s greatest writers, Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was a storyteller known for his wholly innovative narrative techniques and uncanny talent for unraveling the social and political milieu of nineteenth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    A Novel

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    “Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?”—Parul Sehgal, New York TimesNow considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis’s highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas—an enigmatic, amusing and frequently ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Too Much of Life

    The Complete Crônicas

    by Clarice Lispector, Paulo Gurgel Valente ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 46 min

    In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.“The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when they don’t. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Machado de Assis

    26 Stories

    by Machado De Assis ...
    Narrated by Lincoln Hoppe ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 26 min

    A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation. Widely acclaimed as a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, was hailed in his lifetime as Brazil's greatest writer. His prodigious output of novels, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD