Frankfurt 2010/2011

Lya Luft
Multiple Choice
Lya convokes the reader to an essential
ritual: thinking of life’s multiple choices.
With lucidity and clarity, she approaches
the key-elements in our daily life:
oldness and youth, the new dilemmas
and taboos of sexuality, family changes,
virtual communication, the borders
between public and private, violence,
drugs, ethics and affections. A beautiful
essay that reflects the paths in our times.
Dodô Azevedo
On the road Again
This is the story of
Eduardo and Mariana,
alter egos of writer
Dodô Azevedo and
photographer Luiza
Leite, who decided to revisit the route American writer Jack
Kerouac covered in the 1950s, leading to the classic On the
Road. They aimed at finding what still lingered of beatnik
and countercultural in 21st Century America. Inexperienced
in the travelling field and with little money on their pockets,
the task proved to be an adventure.
CONTEMPORARY
LITERATURE
Adélia PRADO
Alcione ARAUJO
Ariano SUASSUNA
Arnaldo BLOCH
Arthur DAPIEVE
Beatriz BRACHER
Carlos Herculano LOPES
Cíntia MOSCOVICH
Claudia TAJES
Dodô AZEVEDO
Flávio CARNEIRO
João A. CARRASCOZA
João Silvério TREVISAN
José Rubem FONSECA
Leticia WIERZCHOWSKI
Livia GARCIA-ROZA
Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMO
Lya LUFT
Lygia Fagundes TELLES
Marcelo FERRONI
Maria Adelaide AMARAL
Maria Valéria REZENDE
Sérgio RODRIGUES
Tony BELLOTTO
Vitor RAMIL
Lucia Riff, Laura Riff, João Paulo Riff,
NON-FICTION
CHILDREN AND YA
CLASSIC AUTHORS
Roberto Matos & Alessandra Missagia
Carlos DOMINGOS
Cristiane COSTA
David Oliveira SOUZA
Fernando EICHENBERG
Fernando SHELLER
Gladis BRUN
Kledir RAMIL
Luiz Eduardo SOARES
Márcia ZOLADZ
Maria Tereza MALDONADO
Roberto DaMATTA
Zuenir VENTURA
Adriana FALCÃO
Cecília VASCONCELLOS
Flávia LINS E SILVA
Janaína MICHALSKI
Joana PENNA
Luciana SAVAGET
Luiz Claudio CARDOSO
Marcelo PIRES
Marcio VASSALLO
Mariana VERÍSSIMO
Marina COLASANTI
Suzana VARGAS
Sylvia ORTHOF
Rosa Amanda STRAUSZ
Augusto Frederico SCHMIDT
Carlos DRUMMOND de ANDRADE
Celso LUFT
Érico VERÍSSIMO
João CABRAL de MELO NETO
Jorge de LIMA
José Cândido de CARVALHO
Josué de CASTRO
Mario QUINTANA
Paulo Emílio SALES GOMES
Paulo Mendes CAMPOS
Paulo RÓNAI
Rachel de QUEIROZ
Ricardo RAMOS
Agência Riff
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João Anzanello Carrascoza
Thorns and Pins
Making use of gentle prose, with ever
present lyricism, Carrascoza presents
11 short-stories that compel the reader
to embark in the theme of the loss
of innocence. He plunges into the
individual’s building process, in an effort
to measure what might, after all, remain
from a time of plenitude and liberty.
2010
2011
Sergio Rodrigues
Arthur Dapieve
Elza
Black Music
João Silvério Trevisan
Maria Valéria
Rezende
Livia
Garcia-Roza
The Flight of
The Red Ibis
Milamor
The Scent King
The Scent King follows Ruan Carlos, a
poor countryside boy that goes to the
capital to make fortune. Ruan produces
cosmetics at the back of his store,
notably a deodorant whose scent would
have aphrodisiac effects. He becomes
a great businessman in this field, known
as the Scent King - but success comes
at its price. The book depicts a pungent
panel of the Brazilian reality today.
Cintia Moscovich
Claudia Tajes
Why am i fat,
mommy?
Crazy for men
Carlos
Domingos
Disguised
Opportunities
Gladis Brun
Mine, Yours & Ours
Luiz Eduardo Soares
Marcelo Ferroni
Elite Squad 2
Practical Guerrilla
Warfare: a Manual
Elite Squad 2 revisits
themes and characters
from Elite Squad (Objetiva,
2006) as well as from the
homonymous film from
2007, fictionally narrating the contemporary story of Rio
de Janeiro’s milícias, which are formed by policemen,
act as the mob and elect politicians. Besides the Police
backstage, the plot shows the ambiguous role loyalty
plays in human acts and emotions, defying other values
and beliefs. The book dialogues with the film Elite
Squad 2 (simoultaneous lauching date October, 2010)
and their interlocution is marked by a kaleidoscope of
similarities and differences, echoes, references and
surprising inversions.
The name Che Guevara is not
unfamiliar, but few know the
details that led to his downfall
in 1966 and 1967. Isolated
in Tanzania and depressed
with the recent guerrilla failure in the Congo, he gathers
his most faithful followers to plot a new revolution. His
goal is now Bolivia. Tired of the Cuban bureaucracy, he
wants things done his way: no deals, no concessions,
and with the unbeatable method he himself created.
Practical Guerrilla Warfare is a work of fiction. It is a
novel of ambition and madness based on true events
— the last revolutionary expedition of Che Guevara
—, but which subverts documented history, recreating
characters and scenarios. It’s also a love story, and a
pastiche, of the few who remained by the fighter’s side
until his final moments.
Beatriz Bracher
Marina Colasanti
Antonio
My War of Theirs
Benjamim is about to
become a father, and
discovers a family secret.
He then decides to find
out how everything
happened from the ones
involved. Three of them – his grandmother, Isabel;
Haroldo, his grandfather’s friend; and Raul, his parents’
friend – will tell him their versions of the facts, and
by gathering these pieces of memory, Benjamim will
solve the puzzle of the history of his family. In this
polyphonic narrative, Beatriz articulates general and
private, individual and historical, building characters
that are simultaneously unique and identifiable in their
social context. Both protagonist and reader are moved
listeners to the story.
In this moving memoir
whose reminiscences
shift from dramatic
to sweet, historical to
emotive, Marina tells
of WWII seen through
the eyes of a child. The book opens with her parent’s
wedding, travels to Africa with her family, the years in
Italy during the War, and watches their arrival to Brazil.
The author highlights the inner strength of the women
around her, like her mother and her baby-sitter, who
kept their heads up in the hardest circumstances. Her
father, a happy and generous man, volunteered at the
war. Marina tries to grasp the source of his passion,
and this questioning and the consequences of the
conflict in her family’s life are the substance with which
she crafts this outstanding book.
Luis Fernando Verissimo
The Snakes
Tony Bellotto
Down
In the Hole
Tony Bellotto is a
rock musician and
writer – his new
book, Down in the
Hole, (lauching date
October 2010), is in the intersection of Tony’s two
main talents. Narrated in first person, the book tells the
misadventures of Teo Zanquis, a decadent rocker in his
fifties who took part of a one hit band in the 1980s. He
tells of his frantic life on the road, in the golden times,
and of his recent passion for a young Korean girl he
met at a record shop in São Paulo. With extraordinary
dialogues, the story is full of humour, sex, drugs, and
rock’ n roll. There are many musical references from
the 1980s and backwards, which may spark varied (and
pleasant) doses of nostalgia.
Flavio Carneiro
The
Championship
André will not
settle down
professionally due
to his uncontrollable
compulsion to reading
detective novels. Inspired by characters such as Sherlock
Holmes and Hercule Poirot, he decides to take a detective
distance course which will send him into a bizarre
investigation of a competition called “The Championship”.
André goes through streets and bars in Rio de Janeiro,
and is Flavio Carneiro’s homage to the city, as well as
to mystery novels, and to his favourite authors – Rubem
Fonseca, especially. The book’s protagonist, all in all, is
the detective novel itself, object of passion of heroes and
criminals.
Letícia Wierzchowski
The Getka
Andrzej is a writer
who wants to find
a start to his new
book after the end
of his marriage.
Locked in his office,
trying to write, his memories take him to the time when
he was a boy and spent the summers with the family
in a desert beach. Their summers were shared with
the Getka, and there was Lylia, the brave and beautiful
youngest daughter of Josef and Danya Getka. Lylia, the
childhood love Andrzej will never forget. Fantasy and
reality, past and present, are conjugated and illuminated
in this beautiful book, showing that life is capricious:
the doors it opens may close with no previous warning,
and no compass can ever make sure we will reach
the destination of our dreams. Leticia Wierzchowski
presents us the story of a man that loved a woman, and
the story of a boy who discovers love.
This book presents The Snakes, the
protagonists of the comic strips Luiz
Fernando Verissimo
created in the 1970’s,
during the Brazilian
Dictatorship. The Snakes
surprise, captivate, feel
fear, but then decide to
be strong and defy God,
the football coach and
the politicians - only to
discover they are nothing
after all.
The Spies
Still recovering from the weekend’s
hangover, an employee of a small
publishing house receives an envelope with the first pages
of an unfinished confessions book written by someone
called Ariadne, who promises to tell her story with a secret
lover and then commit suicide. Tormented by romantic
dreams, this frustrated bohemian decides to find out who
Ariadne is and try to save her from her imminent death.