{"title":"Antônio Torres","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntônio Torres, antes de chegar à literatura, passou pelo jornalismo, primeiro na Bahia, estado em que nasceu (Sátiro Dias, 1940), depois em São Paulo, onde migrou para a publicidade. Morou três anos em Portugal e hoje vive no Rio de Janeiro, depois de um longo período em Itaipava, na Região Serrana Fluminense. Sua estreia literária se deu em 1972, com o romance \u003cem\u003eUm cão uivando para a lua\u003c\/em\u003e, que causou grande impacto na crítica e no público, e foi seguido por \u003cem\u003eOs homens dos pés redondos \u003c\/em\u003e(1973). De lá para cá, publicou quase vinte livros, entre os quais se destacam a \u003cem\u003eTrilogia Brasil\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eEssa terra\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO cachorro e o lobo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePelo fundo da agulha\u003c\/em\u003e) e \u003cem\u003eQuerida cidade.\u003c\/em\u003e Sua premiada obra, que passeia por cenários urbanos, rurais e históricos, tem várias edições no Brasil e traduções em muitos países. Membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras, da Academia de Letras da Bahia, da Academia Petropolitana de Letras e da Academia Contemporânea de Letras (São Paulo), é sócio correspondente da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"meninos-eu-conto","title":"Boys, I'll tell you","description":"Revised and illustrated edition of a children's classic by the immortal Antônio Torres\n\n The book portrays a Brazil still relevant today, full of humble people and unforgettable characters. For fans of Auto da Compadecida and other classics, the stories in this book recount the growing pains, conflicts, and dreams of teenagers much like the boy Antônio Torres himself once was, growing up in the town of Junco, in the Bahia countryside.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159268081916,"sku":"9788501103789","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5c3ad5a8356b57fb2b2637c31dde6daa.jpg?v=1783742453"},{"product_id":"essa-terra-edicao-de-bolso","title":"This Land (Pocket Edition)","description":"Originally published in 1976, \"Essa Terra\" is one of the most remarkable novels in contemporary Brazilian literature. It portrays the impact of the big city on the migrant, the immigrant from the Northeast. The author himself, born in the small town of Junco, in the interior of Bahia, followed the same path as his characters, leaving the Northeast to seek his fortune in the metropolises of the Southeast. And he found it. \"Essa Terra\" is also a success abroad, with translations in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, England, the United States, Israel, and Cuba. Throughout this time, \"Essa Terra\" has maintained its initial vigor and freshness intact, earning a prominent place in Brazilian culture. \"Essa Terra\" is the novel that established Antônio Torres as one of the most widely read and beloved contemporary Brazilian writers.\" Italo Moriconi, excerpt from the preface. \"Torres, like Graciliano, chose the most honest option: to write about his Northeast. And just as Graciliano identified the characters in \"Vidas secas\" by showing that they came from his family, \"Essa Terra\" finds its original strength in its biographical foundation.\" Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, Veja “I greatly admire the irony, warmth and style of Essa Terra, which so brilliantly describes people whose destiny is to change places.” Doris Lessing A success with the public and critics since its publication","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159322378492,"sku":"9788577991044","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/a9eebed09285711b070c3d8fff69aa5d.jpg?v=1783742409"},{"product_id":"essa-terra","title":"This land","description":"This novel catapulted Antônio Torres' name onto the national literary scene. With over 20,000 copies sold, the work has been published in Spanish, English, French, Hebrew, German, Italian, and Dutch. It tells the story of Nelo, who decides to migrate from the backlands of Bahia to São Paulo. We follow the migrant's tragedy, his dreams shattered by the big city, which attracts him and then mercilessly expels him.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159426023676,"sku":"9788501060860","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7d844ce6a361c06a1f088be33e8085a1_ba664c2a-ccea-48a5-bb8e-0d53042a86d6.jpg?v=1783744162"},{"product_id":"o-nobre-sequestrador","title":"The noble kidnapper","description":"In *The Noble Kidnapper*, Antônio Torres tells the story of René Duguay-Trouin, a French corsair and character of many adventures whose sword subdued ships, seized cities, intimidated wills, and won hearts. After the success of *My Dear Cannibal*—winner of the Passo Fundo Zaffari \u0026amp; Bourbon Literature Prize in 2001—whose main character was the iconic Cunhambebe, Antônio Torres couldn't resist researching the life of another important but often forgotten figure in the history of Rio de Janeiro. \"This daring corsair of Louis XIV, who filled Rio with terror and fear. I traveled far and wide in pursuit of his trails, twice visiting his homeland, Saint-Malo, in French Brittany, and also La Rochelle, from where Duguay-Trouin departed,\" reveals the author. René Duguay-Trouin, one of the most audacious figures of his time, arrived in Brazil in a squadron of 18 ships, with nearly 6,000 men and 700 cannons, to plunder the gold being shipped from Rio de Janeiro and bound for Portugal. He successfully executed his plan and held the city hostage for fifty days while awaiting payment of the ransom to return it to its inhabitants. After filling the ships with Rio's gold to depart, leaving it in a state of disrepair, Duguay-Trouin's successful invasion served as a form of personal revenge for him—a year earlier, another French corsair, Jean-François Duclerc, had attempted to invade Rio with five ships and a thousand men, but failed, ending up imprisoned and mysteriously murdered—in addition to representing a significant profit for France. Duguay-Trouin's motivations were far broader than those of his predecessor. He intended to shift the axis of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe, as France, battling at sea against a powerful coalition of eight countries, had suffered greatly in that war. With its navy in its death throes, attacking Rio would be a way to eliminate France's enemies gradually, from the outskirts, far from its military might. In other words, attacking Rio, at the time Portugal's most flourishing colony, was to attack Portugal, a perennial ally of the English and part of the European coalition at war with France. With a less than heroic end, the story of Duguay-Trouin, a hero in France and a villain in Brazil, harks back to a time of adventure and misfortune, of sailors, pirates, and excitement. The Noble Kidnapper is a novel that leaves the reader reeling, amid so many wars, gales, storms, shipwrecks, heroism, dreams, and human sacrifices, especially in the age of splendor and misery of the Sun King.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159426285820,"sku":"9788501067326","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ee3007e4531fbb63902e671e8fa96481_7e4312f2-5043-4e69-b2a0-f2d6745f922d.jpg?v=1783742380"},{"product_id":"trilogia-brasil","title":"Brazil Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrilogia Brasil\u003c\/em\u003e brings together three novels by Antônio Torres: \u003cem\u003eEssa Terra\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eO Cão e o Lobo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePelo Fundo da Neuja\u003c\/em\u003e , in a collection of stories of uprooting, affection and encounter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In celebration of the 50th anniversary of his literary work, Antônio Torres, immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, brings together in \u003cem\u003eTrilogia Brasil\u003c\/em\u003e the works that tell different stages of the life of a migrant, decades apart, and which here complete their course.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Essa Terra\u003c\/em\u003e \" (1976) is one of the most remarkable novels in contemporary Brazilian literature. The story begins with Totonhim's remembrance of his brother's return to Junco, a small town in the interior of Bahia where they lived. His brother had fled to São Paulo in search of a better life. After many years of failure in the big city, he decides to return to his hometown, in the hinterland of the Northeast. Once there, he becomes disillusioned with everything he finds and rediscovers and ends up hanging himself from a hammock. His older brother's suicide impacts Totonhim and his entire family. \u003cem\u003e\"Essa Terra\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" the first work in the trilogy, is also a success abroad, with translations in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, England, the United States, Israel, and Cuba. For decades, it maintained its initial vigor and freshness intact, earning a prominent place in Brazilian culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eTwenty years after leaving for São Paulo, Totonhim, in \u003cem\u003e*The Dog and the Wolf*\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), retraces the journey in reverse: he returns to Junco, on a whirlwind visit to his father, who has just turned 80. He is the same father he left twenty years earlier, but more serene, perhaps, and more solitary. In the three stages of a day that follows the path of the sun—morning, afternoon, evening—the narrator attempts to reclaim possession of a place where his roots lie. A place where stories intertwine, rhythmed by ancient music and melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAbout a decade later, in \u003cem\u003ePelo fundo da agulha\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), Totonhim is alone in the world. He's retired, separated from his wife and children, lost his best friend, and embarks on another journey back—a completely internal one. Lulled by the image of his elderly mother, still able to thread the needle without glasses, he replays various moments of his life, as if looking at her through that hole. The images now exist only in Totonhim's memory, revealing the São Paulo side of his story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e By portraying the impact of the big city on the migrant—the immigrant from the Northeast—the \u003cem\u003eBrazil Trilogy\u003c\/em\u003e represents the Brazilian population that migrates in search of better living conditions, but encounters a hostile reality in urban environments. Between encounters and separations, affection, uprooting, and returning to one's origins, the story of a migrant and his suffering is also the story of Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e About \u003cem\u003ethis land\u003c\/em\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e“ \u003cem\u003eThis land\u003c\/em\u003e is not the story of a land, but of its human product.” - Leonor Bassères, \u003cem\u003eTribuna da Imprensa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Full of unanswered questions from a country in transition.” - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e About \u003cem\u003eThe Dog and the Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “There is magic in the language of this beautiful novel.” - César Leal, \u003cem\u003eDiário de Pernambuco\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “It is his masterpiece.” - Ana Maria Machado, \u003cem\u003eJornal do Brasil\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e About \u003cem\u003eThrough the Eye of the Needle\u003c\/em\u003e :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “ \u003cem\u003eThrough the Eye of the Needle\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most beautiful novels about time that passes and caresses and bites us, caresses and makes us hurt.” - Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, \u003cem\u003eEstado de S. Paulo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “With \u003cem\u003ePelo fundo da agulha (Through the Needle)\u003c\/em\u003e closes the circle of the trilogy that began with \u003cem\u003eEssa Terra (This Land)\u003c\/em\u003e , from 1976, and followed by \u003cem\u003eO Cão e o Lobo (The Dog and the Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e ), from 1997, marking three periods in the work of Antônio Torres and three distinct moments in the history of fiction in the country.” - Cláudia Nina, \u003cem\u003eRevista Brasil\u003c\/em\u003e \/ \u003cem\u003eBrazil\u003c\/em\u003e , Brown University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159923343612,"sku":"9786555875676","price":109.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/6855b0d46d36be269fc23c9a49691265_8fc057cf-5020-455b-ad6c-23af1c80262b.jpg?v=1783743155"},{"product_id":"tempo-aberto","title":"Open weather","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Time\u003c\/em\u003e brings together eight short stories by great Brazilian authors in celebration of Editora Record's 80th anniversary.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eOpen Time\u003c\/em\u003e brings together eight short stories, one for each decade of the last eighty years of Brazilian life, between 1942 and 2022, in a broad gallery of characters and themes that, in one way or another, represent us all. Under the often indirect but penetrating light of fiction, the individual, social, political, and existential questions of this historical period resurface here thanks to the talents of Alberto Mussa, Nélida Piñon, Francisco Azevedo, Antônio Torres, Carla Madeira, Nei Lopes, Claudia Lage, and Cristovão Tezza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this grand sweep of Brazil's recent history, some important themes stand out: the now traditional violence of our cities, with a touch of the supernatural; the role of women in society; the opposition between dictatorship and counterculture, in Brazil and around the world; the reach of the military regime in the country's backlands; the awakening of youth during the period of redemocratization; the strength of popular culture on the eve of the digital revolution; the everyday pressures of the contemporary world; and, finally, the return of the far right to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eOpen Time: Eight Decades in Eight Stories by Great Brazilian Authors\u003c\/em\u003e , organized in celebration of Editora Record's 80th anniversary, is a wonderful opportunity to explore the country's history through literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174501990652,"sku":"9786555875584","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/143f99b57d79e10d3f17526fedff8ff7.jpg?v=1783742440"},{"product_id":"um-taxi-para-viena-d-austria","title":"A TAXI TO VIENNA OF AUSTRIA","description":"A TAXI FOR VIENNA, AUSTRIA, by Antônio Torres, is one of the most respected and well-known works of the Bahian writer. Written in 1991, the novel references Torres's previous works, a kind of record that unites the author's entire oeuvre, in a broad portrait faithful to the contradictions and emotional dramas. The book tells the story of an unemployed advertising executive who commits a crime and takes a taxi to escape. But at the wrong time: rush hour. In the middle of a massive traffic jam in Ipanema, the fugitive listens attentively to Mozart's Mass in C major playing on the car radio, thus beginning an imaginary journey, in which not everything is reality. But his fantasy is far from being just a dream. Confined to a taxi, Torres's character is a metaphor for Brazil, for a country that seems to be at a standstill. Eternally stuck in a traffic jam. In A TAXI TO VIENNA, thieves rob while talking about Cervantes, Machado de Assis, and Shakespeare; typical, sun-kissed locals from Ipanema present themselves to solve seemingly insoluble problems, and the narrator is a Brazilian pretending to be a foreigner, who dreams in English. Torres combines a tongue-in-cheek style with a fun and intelligent narrative. Winner of several awards in Brazil and abroad, Antônio Torres's literature is the best in the Brazilian literary scene. A TAXI TO VIENNA, DURING THE DAY reveals a Brazil that, despite Third World poverty, insists on existing with its clever refrains. The character listening to Mozart doesn't want to be woken by anyone. He prefers to dream. In Antônio Torres's narrative, boundaries are shattered by the frenetic pace of the postmodern city, by the fragmentation of images that burst in flashes, by the derealization of the most quotidian of realities. An unmissable novel, already a classic of Brazilian literature, reissued by Editora Record with a new graphic design. Antônio Torres was born on September 13, 1940, in Junco, a village in the interior of Bahia. He studied in Alagoinhas and Salvador, where he joined the Jornal da Bahia newspaper. At 20, he moved to São Paulo, where he worked as a reporter and editor-in-chief of the sports section of the newspaper Última Hora. He switched from journalism to advertising, working as a copywriter for major Brazilian agencies. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the novel \"A Dog Howling at the Moon.\" In 1976, he published \"This Land,\" his greatest success, which has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew, and Dutch. He is also the author of \"Ballad of Lost Childhood,\" \"The Round-Footed Men,\" \"Letter to the Bishop,\" \"Goodbye, Old Man,\" \"The Center of Our Inattention,\" \"The Dog and the Wolf,\" \"The Circus in Brazil,\" \"Boys, I Tell,\" and \"My Dear Cannibal.\" In 1998, he was decorated by the French government as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 1987, he received the Novel of the Year award from the Pen Club of Brazil for *Ballad of Lost Childhood* and in 1997 the hors concours award for Novel from the Brazilian Writers' Union for *The Dog and the Wolf*. *My Dear Cannibal* earned him the Zaffari \u0026amp; Bourbon Prize from the Passo Fundo Literary Conference in 2001. \"Antônio Torres, far from forgetting his origins and his land, returns to them through fiction, inserting them into literary geography.\" *Jornada da Tarde* \"Torres's work is a challenge; it offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about people and cultures that understand us more than we understand them.\" *Los Angeles Times Book Review* \"There is no trace of sentimentality in Torres's work. On the contrary, every emotion is polished with good humor and a dose of elegant irony.\" *Isto É Magazine*","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174509265148,"sku":"9788501062437","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/0a29859eb74a79ddb31e8d15267c9a6b.jpg?v=1783742552"},{"product_id":"querida-cidade","title":"Dear city","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAfter fifteen years without writing a novel, the immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters Antônio Torres returns to the genre with \u003cem\u003eQuerida cidade\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThere are writers for whom the past, present, and future don't exist separately; they are one. This fusion of times allows their characters to simultaneously experience the life they've already lived, which is responsible for their current state, and the life they'll yet live, because at every moment, who they are today influences, or even determines, who they will be tomorrow. Antônio Torres is one of these writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eDear City\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a protagonist who, like other characters in the book, left the small town where he was born—to seek a better life, to study, or even to escape something. Talking to his mother about his father, who disappeared without a trace many years before, the son reminisces about his own journey of exodus, independence, failure, and eventual return to his roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThrough memories, projections, and cultural references from a deep-seated Brazil, the narrative weaves together the dreamlike and the everyday, love and melancholy, despair and acceptance. A triumph of a great author at his finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Read Antônio Torres. This man is very good.” - Jorge Amado\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Born in Bahia, and indelibly marked by the backlands, Antônio Torres writes about the fascination of labyrinth-cities.” - \u003cem\u003eLe Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Torres inherited the narrative techniques of European, North American, and Latin American modernists along with the great oral traditions of Brazil.” - \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “His literature has a poetic force that treats the sordid and the sad as parts of a creative mechanism unwilling to falsify reality or to transgress with subterfuge what history wants to silence.” - Nélida Piñon\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174816661756,"sku":"9786555870114","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8c98cadd363780d946040ca582a96739.jpg?v=1783741707"},{"product_id":"pelo-fundo-da-agulha","title":"AT THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE","description":"In THROUGH THE NEEDLE, 10 years later, Totonhim is alone in the world. 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Which is no small thing.\" - Paulo Becker, \u003cem\u003evóx XXI\u003c\/em\u003e , Porto Alegre\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175364772092,"sku":"9788501058324","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9c8e98ce6588d5cebb7e7b41648d02e6_15c21b5a-0213-4a20-bb34-9c3a9bfb613b.jpg?v=1783743570"},{"product_id":"o-cachorro-e-o-lobo","title":"The dog and the wolf","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty years after the publication of 'Essa Terra', an emblematic novel from the 1970s that became a classic, Antônio Torres returns to talk about his homeland, the interior of Bahia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Twenty years after leaving for São Paulo, the marvelous South, thanks to a stroke of luck, the Narrator makes the same journey in reverse. A quick visit to his father, who has just turned eighty. A father identical to the one he left twenty years earlier. More serene, perhaps, and more solitary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In the three stages of a day that follows the path of the sun—morning, afternoon, and evening—the narrator attempts to reclaim possession of a place where his roots lie. Memories are stirred, brought on by longing and the litany of genealogies. A story is written where stories intertwine, set to the rhythm of music, ancient melodies that lull the dora.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Dog and the Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e , memory rushes, runs over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\" \u003cem\u003eThe Dog and the Wolf\u003c\/em\u003e presents itself with the power of an essential work, crowning the novelist's plenitude and proposing itself as an essential reference. The ghosts and creatures of Antônio Torres's novelistic universe no longer belong to the small world of the old village of Junco. They belong to the solar city of creation, the place of every reader's dreams and desires.\" – Cid Seixas, \u003cem\u003eO Estado de S. Paulo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “An ambiguous miracle of literature.” – \u003cem\u003eLe Nouvel Observateur\u003c\/em\u003e , Paris\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176292139260,"sku":"9788501048462","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c0d969beb3e860b70130e83fa033c337.jpg?v=1786753779"},{"product_id":"um-cao-uivando-para-a-lua","title":"A DOG HOWLING AT THE MOON","description":"It was with A DOG HOWLING AT THE MOON that Antônio Torres made his literary debut in 1972, being immediately acclaimed as \"an explosive talent\" (Leo Gilson Ribeiro, Veja magazine), \"a master fiction writer\" according to Jorge Amado, and \"the most significant debut\" of that year (Hélio Pólvora, Jornal do Brasil). A DOG HOWLING AT THE MOON did more than surprise literary circles: it was also a success with the public. Critics received it with a rare enthusiasm for a debutant, highlighting the courage of his testimony and the strength of his language, whose \"healthy aggressiveness\" appropriately served the plot's blunt message. Published by a small publisher called Gernasa, A DOG HOWLING AT THE MOON would make a huge impact. It was hailed by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo as \"the revelation of the year.\" To commemorate this \"happy debut,\" in the words of Aguinaldo Silva in the now-defunct Opinião, let's see what O Globo said about this book on November 26, 1972: \"No one knew who Antônio Torres was, even though he is one of the greatest revelations of a writer to emerge from Brazil recently. This debut novel has surprising power and in certain passages reaches the heights of the best national fiction. The realistic, dry, and colloquial language and the richness of situations lead us to expect even more important works from this author.\" And this was confirmed. Today, with more than a dozen published titles, Antônio Torres is among the most respected and widely read Brazilian writers, with many awards, successive editions, translations in several countries, and a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres honor from the French government. But it all really began with A DOG HOWLING AT THE MOON, thirty years ago, \"the happy debut,\" \"the howl of a generation,\" which Record is now re-releasing in a commemorative edition. Antônio Torres was born on September 13, 1940, in Junco, a village in the interior of Bahia. He studied in Alagoinhas and Salvador, where he joined the Jornal da Bahia newspaper. At 20, he moved to São Paulo, where he worked as a reporter and editor-in-chief of the sports section of the newspaper Última Hora. He switched from journalism to advertising, working as a copywriter for major Brazilian agencies. He made his literary debut in 1972 with the novel \"A Dog Howling at the Moon.\" In 1976, he published \"This Land,\" his greatest success, which has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hebrew, and Dutch. He is also the author of \"Ballad of Lost Childhood,\" \"The Round-Footed Men,\" \"Letter to the Bishop,\" \"Goodbye, Old Man,\" \"The Center of Our Inattention,\" \"The Dog and the Wolf,\" \"The Circus in Brazil,\" \"Boys, I Tell,\" and \"My Dear Cannibal.\" In 1998, he was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In 1987, he received the Novel of the Year award from the Pen Club of Brazil for \"Balada da infância perdido\" (Ballad of Lost Childhood), and in 1997, the hors concours award for Novel from the Brazilian Writers' Union for \"O cachorro e o lobo\" (The Dog and the Wolf). \"Meu querido canibal\" (My Dear Cannibal) earned him the Zaffari \u0026amp; Bourbon Award from the Passo Fundo Literary Conference in 2001. \"Antônio Torres, far from forgetting his origins and his land, returns to them through fiction, inserting them into literary geography.\" - Jornal da Tarde \"Torres's work is a challenge; it offers a wonderful opportunity to learn about people and cultures that understand us more than we understand them.\" - Los Angeles Times Book Review \"There is no trace of sentimentality in Torres's work. On the contrary, every emotion is shaped with good humor and a dose of elegant irony.\" - Isto É Magazine \"The book is excellent. I enjoyed it very much. Antônio Torres is a master fiction writer, and I'm sure he will go far.\" - Jorge Amado \"A Dog Howling at the Moon is one of those rare books you can't put down until the end. Violent, engaging, and always terribly sincere.\" - Caio Fernando Abreu \"It's a very successful experiment, fusing ultra-sophisticated urban literature with a regionalism entirely stripped of the genre's traditional quirks: a great book.\" - Marcos Santarrita","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176292860156,"sku":"9788501065346","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f0272b5b42f2db75e139cb3ad89a6f42_6fbd4b6f-c5c2-4cc2-81e2-ed90a4dca654.jpg?v=1783743288"},{"product_id":"carta-ao-bispo","title":"LETTER TO THE BISHOP","description":"LETTER TO THE BISHOP is the natural successor to This Land, one of the most remarkable novels in contemporary Brazilian literature, a moving account of the impact of the \"big city\" on the migrant, the immigrant from the Northeast. 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In this novel, Torres narrates the journey of a woman, Virinha, from a humble rural village to prison in the big city.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176716288252,"sku":"9788501071774","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2dde11af67e7a7182642494212fc7f7b.jpg?v=1783743350"},{"product_id":"os-homens-dos-pes-redondos","title":"Os homens dos pés redondos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublicado originalmente em 1973, \u003cem\u003eOs homens dos pés redondos\u003c\/em\u003e ganha nova edição. 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Depois de despender sua energia numa guerra perdida, chafurda nos escombros das glórias do passado, assistindo, melancolicamente, às mudanças do mundo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eÉ nesse espaço e tempo que se movem os personagens deste romance: um homem que planeja matar, com uma tesoura, o seu chefe – o escritor Adelino Alves –, que, preso no aeroporto ao tentar embarcar para Estocolmo, é substituído no emprego e na cama por certo estrangeiro, que se torna amante de sua mulher, Lena; o banqueiro Fernandes e seus filhos, Maria Manuela e Júnior; e ainda o cabo Emílio, que deu um murro num tenente que lhe queria roubar a namorada e amargou cinco anos de cadeia, em Macau. Todos a darem voltas em torno de si mesmos, até ficarem de pés redondos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Antônio Torres é um ficcionista de estatura incomum, alguém que tem o que dizer e a sua própria forma de dizê-lo. 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Publicado originalmente em 1976, o livro permanece como um dos grandes clássicos da literatura brasileira contemporânea.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssa terra\u003c\/em\u003e acompanha a saga de uma família camponesa de Junco, pequeno povoado do sertão baiano, e o drama vivido por Nelo, o filho mais velho, que deixa a terra natal rumo a São Paulo em busca de uma vida melhor. A narrativa é conduzida pela voz de Totonhim, o irmão mais novo, que reconstrói a trajetória de Nelo à distância, entre lembranças, silêncios e expectativas da família — sobretudo da mãe, que sonhava vê-lo voltar rico e vitorioso. No entanto, nem tudo ocorre como o planejado, e o protagonista encontrará muitos obstáculos e amarguras no caminho.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDividido em quatro partes, o romance alterna vozes narrativas e saltos temporais para compor um retrato ao mesmo tempo íntimo e coletivo do êxodo nordestino para o sudeste. O tema também atravessa a segunda parte do livro, centrada na expulsão do pai da roça pelo avanço do capitalismo no campo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCom linguagem simples e cativante, a obra tornou-se um clássico da literatura brasileira sobre migração. O próprio autor, nascido na pequena cidade de Junco, interior da Bahia, percorreu os mesmos caminhos dos seus personagens, deixando o Nordeste para buscar a sorte nas metrópoles do Sudeste, onde a encontrou.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssa terra\u003c\/em\u003e é também sucesso no exterior, com traduções na França, Alemanha, Itália, Holanda, Inglaterra, Estados Unidos, Israel e Cuba. 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