Uma Casa para Mr. Biswas
Translated title: A House for Mr. Biswas
Author: Naipaul, V. S.
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 704 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789895820689
A House for Mr. Biswas is one of V.S. Naipaul's earliest and most important works of fiction and the novel that contributed most to the general understanding of his work.
Born on the wrong side of the world and thrown into the world that welcomed him with little more than a bad omen, Mohum Biswas spent 46 years of his life fighting for independence. But his determination and effort only led to calamity. Cast from place to place after his father's drowning (for which he was inadvertently responsible), Biswas longs for a place he can call home
A Historia de uma Serva
Translated title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Atwood, Margaret
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 360 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789722549684
Adapted into a hugely successful television series, the book became a worldwide bestseller, translated into more than forty languages. The sequel, The Testaments, once again explores the question of identity: how does someone turn against their own and become an aggressor?
A Greve
Translated title: The Strike
Author: Corredoura, Luis
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 536 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789895774876
Five thousand workers. Hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries. Twelve days of protest. The regime's only option was violence.
In May 1965, five thousand workers from hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries paralyzed the extraction and processing of lioz for 12 days, a stone unique to the Pêro Pinheiro region, in the northern municipality of Sintra, and with which some of Portugal's most emblematic buildings were constructed over its nine centuries.
At the height of the Salazarist dictatorship and facing the prospect of political embarrassment, the forces of law and order, faced with the usual: lies, threats, cavalry charges by the GNR (National Republican Guard), and countless arrests and torture by the PIDE (Political Defense Institute). It was, nevertheless, the largest strike the Estado Novo had ever faced
As Margens da Guerra
Translated title: The Margins of War
Author: Montenegro, Aires
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 126 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789893607046
The revisitation to which Aires Montenegro invites us, undertaken in the full maturity of emotion, has no parallel in contemporary Portuguese novels. If we exclude the mastery we owe to João de Melo in his novels about the colonial disaster, the historical period to which this testimony relates remains unaddressed, or is reduced to sparse haze of memory, with which we have avoided discomfort. The Margins of War is therefore, more than a mere exercise in self-revelation, the greatness to which fiction best ascends, and which ultimately reveals to us both the face of an author and those who follow in his footsteps
Contos Completos 1
Translated title: Complete Stories 1
Author: Cortazar, Julio
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 800 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789895836475
Over the course of nearly four decades, Julio Cortázar left us twelve famous volumes of short stories, in addition to the various scattered and unpublished volumes discovered at the beginning of this century, collected in Unexpected Papers. Celebrated by generations of readers and considered masterpieces of the genre, they collectively exceed a thousand pages.
In these texts, Cortázar challenges the frontiers of literary creation, with a style as mind-boggling as jazz improvisation and as surprising as a boxing match. From the opening stories of The Other Shore, to the unmistakable universe, brimming with freedom and boldness, of Bestiary and All the Fires, the Fire, to the fanciful invention of cronopios and famas, the Cortázar revolution in 20th-century literature breaks out
A Nuvem no Olhar
Translated title: The Cloud in the Eye
Author: Melo, Joao de
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 232 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789722086301
A Nuvem no Olhar brings together ten very distinct stories, offering diverse social approaches that go beyond merely criticizing customs and traditions, but also reflect on the underlying ideologies and mentalities. They feature intra-family relationships, caricatures of politicians, scenes from the daily lives of teachers and intellectuals in general, and even the simple story of a couple's honeymoon trip to the nine Azorean islands, presented as a crucial revelation
Crimes & Paixoes na Invicta
Translated title: Crimes & Passions in Invicta
Author: Pinto, Raul Simoes
Genre: Crime / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 108 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789723621273
Crimes & Passions in Porto brings together twenty forensic stories from a city known for its good manners, but whose history is steeped in crimes and scams. Presented here in a chronological order, from the early 19th century to the present day.
Written based on contemporary news and, at times, the author's own memories, reality often surpasses fiction, even as we follow the lives of a series of figures who have shaped Porto's criminal history, from Zé do Telhado to Siga O Rei da Pasteleira
A Ilha Mortal
Translated title: The Deadly Island
Author: Bjork, Samuel
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 560 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789722085748
Jonathan disappeared three years ago. No clues. No answers. But now, a teenage girl is found brutally murdered... with Jonathan's name written in her blood.
Mia feels the nightmare has only just begun. And to face it, she calls on the only man she trusts: Holger Munch.
As bodies turn up and old secrets come to light, the two plunge into a web of lies, pain, and violence. What seemed like a peaceful village hides a dark truth, and someone is willing to kill to keep it buried
Misery
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 352 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789722548267
Translated
Paul Sheldon is a famous romance novelist, made famous by the main character of his books, Misery Chastain. She made him a rich man - literally - but Sheldon realized it was time to turn the page and decided to 'kill' Misery. He did so with relief and even joy. Paul wants to write again, yes, but something different, something more authentic. At least for himself.
It was then that he suffered a terrible car accident and was rescued by Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who took him to her remote home with the intention of treating him. What Paul doesn't know is that Annie, his savior, is also his number one fan, the most fanatical and obsessed of all - and she is furious with what he did to Misery.
Wounded and unable to walk, completely at Annie's mercy, Paul is forced to write a new book to 'resurrect' the character, like a modern-day Scheherazade in the hands of a crazed psychopath who has long since ceased to distinguish reality from fiction.
Filled with complex psychological games between hostage and captor, Misery is a work of suspense and horror at its purest
A Cúpula
Translated title: The Dome
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror
Year: 2025 | Pages: 536 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789722549691
Translated
On a beautiful autumn day, a perfectly normal day, a small town is suddenly and inexplicably cut off from the rest of the world by an unseen force. When they crash into it, planes crash, cars explode, and people are injured. Families are separated and panic sets in. No one can understand what the barrier is, where it comes from, or when (if ever) it will disappear.
Now, a group of intrepid citizens, led by an Iraq War veteran, seizes the reins of power within the dome. But their main enemy is the dome itself. And time is running out
Efémero
Translated title: Ephemeral
Author: Pereira, Teresa
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 400 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789897106521
Maria Mendes is a pastry chef in her mother's tea house. Dealing with the end of a relationship marked by rejection and lack of love, she begins to fantasize about a boy she sees every morning on the beach, in front of the tea house.
Tobias Stein is a young man tormented by a past of violence and loss. Raised by his grandparents, he believes he was not made for love and sees the vastness of the sea as an escape from his pain.
When the two meet, the chemistry is undeniable. Between encounters and missed encounters, shared secrets and heated moments, Maria and Tobias will challenge their beliefs about themselves and love. But can love be more powerful than the monsters that torment them?
Amor & Outras Mentiras
Translated title: Love & Other Lies
Author: Ramos, Andreia
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 224 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789897106286
Vanessa is the epitome of simplicity. Give her a funny t-shirt and a good glass of wine, and she can even put up with clients from the world's worst communications agency. But when her best friend reveals he needs a fake girlfriend to take to his sister's wedding - to hide his sexual orientation from a highly conservative family - Vanessa doesn't hesitate to transform herself into the dream suitor of any rich and demanding parents.
However, will she be able to keep up appearances when faced with an old flame? And will she be able to maintain her role as a well-mannered girl in the face of her friend's highly homophobic grandmother? And that horrible dog that's always following her around?
Quando o Vaticano Caiu
Translated title: When the Vatican Fell
Author: Catalao Moura, Pedro
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789897735264
It has long been known that Hitler intends to invade the Vatican. The hope that he wouldn't dare do so by keeping the curia in Rome was maintained. Until a mysterious letter reaches the Pope, and he can't believe what he reads
Contos Sombrios
Translated title: Dark Tales
Author: Jackson, Shirley
Genre: Mystery / Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 256 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789895835461
Something rotten lurks in the American suburbs. An elderly woman, a vigilante of good manners, writes anonymous letters that sow suspicion among her neighbors; a return home after a day's work turns into a paranoid pursuit; a young woman commits a series of robberies without anyone suspecting; a model citizen reveals himself to be a serial killer. Whether in the community, within the family, or in the privacy of one's own self, nothing is as it seems, and nowhere is safe
Um Lugar Luminoso para Gente Sombria
Translated title: A Bright Place for Dark People
Author: Enriquez, Mariana
Genre: Short Stories / Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 248 | Origin: POR | ISBN: 9789897229732
Twelve magnificent, chilling stories feature evil (or the monstrous), the macabre, the surreal, and the supernatural bursting forth from everyday realities: among them, that of a woman trying to keep the ghosts roaming a peripheral neighborhood of Buenos Aires in check; that of a riverbank populated by birds that were once women; that of volunteers distributing food in a deprived neighborhood who are pursued by children with terrifying eyes; or that of a journalist investigating the famous story of the girl who disappeared from a downtown Los Angeles hotel and who encounters another of the city's legends
