Karen Thompson Walker

Francisco Azevedo

O tempo dos milagres

O arroz de palma

From well-known Brazilian playwright Francisco Azevedo, a heartwarming debut novel about three generations of a family whose kitchen contains the secret ingredient for happiness—sure to appeal to fans of Like Water for Chocolate. Once upon a time there was some rice. Rice planted in the earth, fallen from the sky, and gathered up from the stone. Rice that doesn’t spoil, it came from far away, by ship with three exuberant young people filled with dreams… Once Upon a Time in Rio is a spellbinding family saga beginning with José Custódio and Maria Romana and their search for a prosperous future. As newlyweds, José and Maria immigrated to Brazil at the beginning of the twentieth century, accompanied by a special gift. During the dinner preparations to celebrate their centenary wedding anniversary, their eldest son Antonio, already a grandfather, looks back at the lives of his parents, his aunt, his brothers, their children and grandchildren, as well as his own. Antonio knows that family is a difficult dish to get right and that happiness must be cooked up day by day; however, what separates his family from any other is its possession of a secret ingredient for happiness: the sack of magical rice given to his parents on their wedding day. With the help of the rice, whose magic is as old as fire and time, Antonio’s family has been guided through the most trying of life’s tribulations. Lyrically written, Once Upon a Time in Rio bares the fragile yet strong nature of the human spirit and with great insight captures the solace provided by loved ones in times of need. Already an international bestseller, this is a beautifully told tale about the wisdom of past generations and the inextricable ties of family.

A Novel

Once Upon a Time in Rio

Arroz de Palma

Palmin pirinač

Alberto Mussa

Cristovão Tezza

Nei Lopes

Antônio Torres

Nélida Piñon

Carla Madeira

Claudia Lage

Tempo aberto reúne oito contos de grandes autores brasileiros em celebração aos 80 anos da Editora Record. Tempo aberto reúne oito contos, um para cada década dos últimos oitenta anos da vida brasileira, entre 1942 e 2022, em uma ampla galeria de personagens e temas que, de uma maneira ou de outra, representam a todos nós. Sob a luz muitas vezes indireta, mas penetrante, da ficção, as questões individuais, sociais, políticas e existenciais deste período histórico ressurgem aqui graças ao talento de Alberto Mussa, Nélida Piñon, Francisco Azevedo, Antônio Torres, Carla Madeira, Nei Lopes, Claudia Lage e Cristovão Tezza. Neste grande painel da história recente do Brasil, alguns temas importantes se destacam: a já tradicional violência de nossas cidades, com um toque de sobrenatural; o papel das mulheres na sociedade; a oposição ditadura x contracultura, no Brasil e no mundo; o alcance do regime militar nos sertões do país; o despertar da juventude no período da redemocratização; a força da cultura popular às vésperas da revolução digital; as pressões cotidianas do mundo contemporâneo; e, por fim, a volta da extrema direita ao poder. Tempo aberto: oito décadas em oito contos de grandes autores brasileiros, organizado em comemoração aos 80 anos da Editora Record, é uma bela oportunidade de se percorrer a história do país por meio da literatura.

Oito décadas em oito contos de grandes autores brasileiros

Tempo aberto

Systems are subject to faults in their components, affecting their overall behaviour. In a black-box system, such faults only become apparent in the output when appropriate inputs are given, which poses a number of satisfaction and optimization problems regarding both testing and diagnosing. This work addresses such problems developing models with multi-valued logics that it formalizes and generalizes to multiple faults. Such logics extend Boolean logic by encoding dependencies on faults, thus allowing the modelling of an arbitrary number of diagnostic theories. The effectiveness of constraint solving over finite domains and sets is shown on several problems.

Application to Digital Circuits

Constraint Solving Over Multi-valued Logics

Francisco Azevedo

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