{"title":"Alberto Mussa","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlberto Mussa nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1961. Contista e romancista, recriou a mitologia dos antigos tupinambás, traduziu a poesia árabe pré-islâmica e escreveu, com Luiz Antonio Simas, uma história do samba de enredo. Além de figurar em listas de “melhores do ano” de veículos como \u003cem\u003eVeja\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO Globo\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eFolha de S.Paulo\u003c\/em\u003e, ganhou os prêmios Casa de Las Americas, Academia Brasileira de Letras, Oceanos, Machado de Assis (FBN) e APCA. Estudada na Europa, nos Estados Unidos e no Mundo Árabe, sua obra está publicada em dezessete países e quinze idiomas.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"box-compendio-mitico-do-rio-de-janeiro","title":"Mythical Compendium Box of Rio de Janeiro","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAn unprecedented collection of the five novels from the Compêndio Mítico do Rio de Janeiro, by Alberto Mussa, in an exclusive box with new covers and a booklet by Hermano Vianna.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAlberto Mussa, winner of the Casa de las Americas, Biblioteca Nacional, and ABL awards, among others, once stated that a city is not defined by the temperament of its people or its culture, but by the history of its crimes. With this Mythical Compendium, Mussa tells the story of Rio de Janeiro in five compelling crime novels, one for each century since the city's founding, offering a snapshot that exposes the inner workings and powerful blend of cultures and peoples of the state capital. Independent works that can be read at any time, in any order, the books in the Compendium belong, cumulatively, to five traditional genres: carioca, historical, fantasy, crime, and adultery. 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To elucidate the facts, Unhão Dinis, a judge \"by royal appointment,\" along with shipowner and whaler Mendo Antunes, will track down clues to solve the complex puzzle of crimes. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, with their own perspective on the story. In this journey through 17th-century Rio, \u003cem\u003eThe Throne of Queen Jinga\u003c\/em\u003e weaves a captivating plot about Africa's influence on the formation of Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Elementary Library\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(192 pages)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eA crime occurs in 1733, on Rua do Egito, which would later become Largo da Carioca. In the dead of night, a gypsy woman witnesses a man in a tailcoat, pistol in hand, threaten another man in a Spanish cape and high boots. They grapple. The gun goes off. The man in the tailcoat falls, mortally wounded. The gypsy woman quickly identifies victim and perpetrator, but says nothing—she also has much to hide. With passions and enmities, fears and resentments, desires, magic, and the dead who return like shadows, \u003cem\u003eThe Elementary Library\u003c\/em\u003e relies on suspense to transport the reader to 1970s Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Human Hypothesis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(176 pages)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eGunshots in the night and a crime: the circumstances surrounding the murder of Domitila, daughter of Colonel Chico Eugênio, inside the family farm in Catumbi in 1854 are mysterious. The investigation is led by Detective Tito Gualberto, the victim's cousin and a skilled capoeira fighter, who will attempt to complete the puzzle of the crime. \u003cem\u003eThe human hypothesis\u003c\/em\u003e presents a Rio de Janeiro of capoeira fighters who know how to kill like a dancer, divided into territories controlled by rival nations, and the reader will have the pleasure of unraveling its secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lord on the Left\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(304 pages)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe murder of the secretary of the presidency of the Republic in Casa das Trocas, a luxury brothel in Rio de Janeiro, in 1913 is the starting point for a crucial investigation. The investigation goes beyond a simple sequence of events and clues leading to the killer's identity—a secondary concern for the investigator, completely absorbed by the seductive figure of Aniceto, brother of the main suspect in the crime, the prostitute Fortunata, who spent the night with the victim. \u003cem\u003eThe gentleman on the left\u003c\/em\u003e won the Fiction Award from the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) and the Machado de Assis Award from the National Library Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159272767740,"sku":"9788501305688","price":249.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/88ec2fcc179b1c06ba5607cfbad9b7cf_f7b9ef7a-6914-41f3-987a-613a8c6ef6e8.jpg?v=1778320627"},{"product_id":"samba-de-enredo-historia-e-arte","title":"Samba de enredo: History and art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew, revised and expanded edition of \u003cem\u003eSamba de enredo\u003c\/em\u003e , with an unpublished afterword by Luiz Antonio Simas and Alberto Mussa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eSamba de enredo: história e arte (Samba de enredo: History and Art)\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2009 as a partnership between Alberto Mussa and Luiz Antonio Simas, both writers passionate about samba culture. The book presents in-depth analyses of samba de enredo and their relationship to the country's social history. Amidst rhythms, lyrics, and characters, readers learn how this typically Brazilian genre has been constructed and developed, from 1870 to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e To analyze the lyrics and context of these samba-enredos, Alberto Mussa and Luiz Antonio Simas listened to around 1,600 recorded songs, as well as others that are recorded in the memory accumulated over several carnivals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this new, revised, and expanded edition, the authors have updated the book with an afterword that discusses the changes in sambas de enredo from 2010 to 2022. The blurb is written by master Haroldo Costa. 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As Brazilians, we are, inevitably, descendants of this warrior people who fought for freedom and survived, against all odds, to continue telling their story and honoring their legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e After studying fragments of records about the indigenous culture of Guanabara Bay, made by friar André Thevet in 1550, and comparing them with other sources from the 16th and 17th centuries, Alberto Mussa reconstructs what would have been the original text of a Tupinambá narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThese writings decipher the world constructed by the deities Maíra and Sumé, in addition to informing the emergence of this native people who settled on the coast. Coming from the Amazon, where they had lived for at least 11,000 years, the Tupinambá were diverse and autonomous groups, speaking Tupi-Guarani, who spread throughout the country. They accumulated such precious knowledge of the territory that it served as the basis for the establishment of our first colonial centers in the 16th century. Thus, they influenced the spoken language, trade, topographical names, territorial disputes, the administration of villages and trading posts, diet, and other Brazilian customs, including bathing and hair removal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHere, we learn how these influential indigenous people conceived of the creation of the world and the decisive mythical events that shaped their worldview. Most importantly, we understand why the Tupinambá were cannibals and which deities guided them in consuming the human flesh of those defeated in war, fulfilling their destiny to become jaguars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Mussa’s book records the mythical particularities of the Indians and their breadth, to leave no doubt that we are children of the same greatness.” — Paulo Bentancur, \u003cem\u003eÈpoca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “In the myth restored by Mussa, we can see that war, revenge, and cannibalism between rival Tupinambá groups were fundamental behaviors for these peoples at the beginning of Brazilian colonization.” — Rafael Cariello, \u003cem\u003eFolha de S.Paulo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159425204476,"sku":"9786558021063","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/93247124936bb39ddf75923106ee7a42_dd8bbb91-d30f-4259-88e7-968cedb18c69.jpg?v=1778875413"},{"product_id":"a-biblioteca-elementar","title":"The elementary library","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel by one of the most acclaimed authors in Brazilian literature. The conclusion to the \u003ci\u003emythical Compendium of Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n In the dead of night, on what is now called Rua da Carioca, a man in a tailcoat, pistol in hand, threatens another in a Spanish cape and high boots. They grapple. The gun goes off. The man in the tailcoat falls, mortally wounded. There is a witness, a gypsy, who is also guilty.\n Among the crimes that permeate this detective novel set in 18th-century Rio de Janeiro, only one is truly significant; only one summarizes and symbolizes the book. And, paradoxically, it's the only crime that doesn't happen.\n Alberto Mussa expertly crafts the narrative, conversing with the reader and offering insights into the characters' dilemmas without abandoning his role as narrator, anchored in research into the vocabulary of the time, the context, the streets of Rio, the slave trade, gold smuggling, and the inquisitorial action, always with exquisite technique.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159539761404,"sku":"9788501104250","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5d357e036339942d06ae5638b901007b_888119f1-f185-4769-9167-4d68fb65d7bf.jpg?v=1778324890"},{"product_id":"os-contos-completos","title":"The complete stories","description":"With his vast, erudite, and thematically varied work, Alberto Mussa created this major collection. This collection of short stories has at least one unique characteristic. 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From newly discovered Brazil to the favelas and bars of Rio, from the depths of Africa to our Candomblé terreiros, from Homeric Greece to samba-enredos, from pharaonic Egypt to pre-Islamic Arab poets, Alberto Mussa collects myths and stories to compose an utterly original repertoire.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159540351228,"sku":"9788501107220","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/872978a923a12c94daab9f1c26ce3c9d.jpg?v=1778318552"},{"product_id":"a-hipotese-humana","title":"The human hypothesis","description":"A novel by one of the most acclaimed authors of Brazilian literature\n\n Gunshots in the night and a crime: the circumstances surrounding the murder of Domitila, daughter of Colonel Chico Eugênio, inside the family farm in Catumbi, are mysterious. The investigation is led by Detective Tito Gualberto, the victim's cousin and a skilled capoeira practitioner, who will attempt to piece together the crime. Mussa's fiction, so real, finds its family history at the tip of the iceberg. The crime's many suspects are gradually revealed, drawing the reader into a whirlwind that confuses, imprisons, and unsettles.\n The Human Hypothesis is the fourth novel in the “Mythical Compendium of Rio de Janeiro”, a series of detective novels, one for each century of Rio de Janeiro’s history, already comprising The Throne of Queen Jinga, The First History of the World and The Lord on the Left Side. \nMasterfully utilizing the geographic landscape of 19th-century Rio and combining indigenous and African mythology to create a typically Brazilian mythical setting, Alberto Mussa proves his thesis that a city is not defined by the temperament of its people or its culture, but by the history of its crimes.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159541629180,"sku":"9788501109040","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c49fdac08fd27a70f2d84e569c43d11d_b5ea2fbe-b092-4c27-99c8-ac97701dd65f.jpg?v=1778320638"},{"product_id":"a-primeira-historia-do-mundo","title":"The first history of the world","description":"Rio 1567. A murder. 400 inhabitants. 60 involved. The novel is based in part on the documentation of a real case: the first formal record of a murder in Rio de Janeiro, from 1567, a crime of passion, a story of adultery, which ensnared, among both accused and witnesses, a staggering 15% of the city's population (which numbered no more than 400). A delightful detective story, in which Brazil's founding myths, especially indigenous ones, associated with the very tradition of the detective novel genre, will be fundamental to solving the case. A book you won't want to put down. And here the speaker is not only the editor, honored to publish one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language today, but also a reader always in awe of the—increasingly rare—ability to imagine plots, to conceive stories, to shape Jerônimas and other characters; a reader eager for stories—more unusual every day—that take place in cities, on streets, on rivers, in the vicinity of a stone house, or on the precarious balance of a creek, stories that take place between people, even behind their backs, even with seven (or would it be eight?) arrows in their backs. Thus, instead of railing against literature's dominant taste for tormenting, burying, and internalizing itself, or speculating about the progressive and evident crumbling of the narrator's figure, I prefer to speak of Alberto Mussa, whose work, of unparalleled originality, already represents an inescapable landmark, an enclave of literary vitality; I prefer to deal particularly with this singular event, this one that we now have in our hands, unclassifiable, the book that one cannot stop reading: The First History of the World.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159679254780,"sku":"9788501031754","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/632a80f7130eb23b45fafdce6df23165_8b9d8786-33fb-47f7-a5b3-77aa6a67e537.jpg?v=1778318621"},{"product_id":"o-trono-da-rainha-jinga","title":"Queen Jinga's throne","description":"Combining the agility typical of mystery plots with a language of artistic precision, Queen Jinga's Throne is a journey through ancient Rio, from mansions to slave quarters, from crowded squares to dark alleys. 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