Dulce Maria Cardoso

Eliete

Tudo são histórias de amor

O retorno

The story of a woman who suffers a car accident.

Os meus sentimentos

Autobiografia não autorizada

Campo de sangue

Coisas Que Acarinho E Me Morrem Entre Os Dedos

Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by the rebels, and the family must leave without him. Not knowing if the father is alive or dead - or if they will ever find out what has become of him, Rui, his mother and sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home. This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet, seaside suburb of Lisbon, where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen. These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life. The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them - ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland. Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life: growing up, dropping out of school, facing discrimination, and the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health and his father's fate. And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead. Translated from the Portuguese by �ngel Gurr�a-Quintana

The Return

O chão dos pardais

Desperate and drunk, Violeta overturns her car on a lonely stretch of late-night motorway. As she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life quite literally flashes before her eyes. Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her troubled relationship with her daughter who is everything to her grandparents that Violeta never could be; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the terrible service station cafes, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors... Suspended in this eternity, Violeta examines her life and what it consists of: the thousand daily grievances that add up to a frustrated, thwarted life. She begins to sink into her past. The Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, the defining historical moment of her life. Love, passion, sex - the dreams of adolescence sacrificed to failed relationships Violeta Among the Stars reads like an epic poem, weaving Violeta's memories, thoughts, feelings to narrate a story that consists of dozens of scenes, voices, flashes and memories. Violeta reflecting on her death, her life, her reality and her dreams.

Violeta Among the Stars

Afonso Cruz

Ondjaki

Ricardo Adolfo

Onésimo Teotónio Almeida

O prazer da leitura

Os Meus Sentimentos

A vida familiar, de esposa e mãe dedicada, começa aos poucos a sufocar Eliete. Nascida em 1975, ano da Revolução dos Cravos, ela sempre desejou uma vida normal, que aparenta ter conquistado quando chega aos 42 anos. Mas a percepção que tem da própria existência muda com a notícia de que a avó foi hospitalizada. Esse evento particular desencadeia uma investigação de sua vida: a infância, marcada pela morte inesperada do pai; a relação — narrada com uma crueza que poucas vezes encontramos na literatura — que estabelece com a mãe, com a avó e com a memória desse pai que lutou contra a ditadura salazarista. Aos poucos, as inquietações crescem no interior de Eliete, consumindo não só seu passado, mas também o relacionamento com o marido (com quem divide o teto mas de quem tem mais notícias pelas redes sociais) e com as filhas (das quais se sente cada vez mais distante). Em fuga desse cenário turvo, ela então decide refugiar-se no Tinder, onde finge ser outra pessoa, e os encontros que surgem transformam a vida dessa mulher e a maneira como ela se enxerga. Com uma prosa habilmente construída, Dulce Maria Cardoso maneja com precisão a linguagem e a história neste romance inquietante e sensível.

A vida normal

Contos policiais

Vera Tavares

Lôá e a véspera do primeiro dia

Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by the rebels, and the family must leave without him. Not knowing if the father is alive or dead - or if they will ever find out what has become of him, Rui, his mother and sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home. This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet, seaside suburb of Lisbon, where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen. These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life. The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them - ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland. Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life: growing up, dropping out of school, facing discrimination, and the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health and his father's fate. And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana

De hoofdpersoon, Violeta, is een dikke vrouw die de kost verdient met de verkoop van ontharingscrème en aanverwante artikelen. Wanneer het boek begint hangt ze omgekeerd in haar auto, die over de kop is geslagen. Haar leven trekt aan haar voorbij. Ze denkt aan de moeizame relatie met haar moeder, die een schoonheidsideaal huldigde waar Violeta nooit aan kon voldoen met haar vormeloze grote lichaam. En aan de moeilijke gesprekken die ze met haar dochter voerde, die werd geadoreerd en verwend door haar grootouders omdat ze zo anders was dan haar moeder. Violeta en de engelen is de wordingsgeschiedenis van een eenzame vrouw, die op parkeerplaatsen langs de snelweg haar lichaam geeft aan vrachtwagenchauffeurs. Cardoso verleent haar een ongekende stem.Violeta en de engelen is een lyrisch ontvangen roman van een veelbelovende Portugese schrijfster over de onderkant van het bestaan.

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