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Written in a room at a Rio de Janeiro boarding house, where he lived with his wife and children, the work received the Children's Literature Prize from the Ministry of Education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The book tells the story of a boy named Raimundo, who is bald and has one blue eye and one black eye. Raimundo is considered strange; his neighbors don't speak to him and end up nicknamed him \" \u003cem\u003eNaked Raimundo\u003c\/em\u003e .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWithout friends, Raimundo begins to talk to himself, and creates an imaginary country called \u003cem\u003eTatipirun\u003c\/em\u003e , where people have one black eye and one blue eye, where there is no hair on their heads, and where plants and animals speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e When Raimundo \"\"arrives\"\" in the city of \u003cem\u003eTatipirun\u003c\/em\u003e , he comes across a car coming towards him, and thinks he's going to be run over. However, the car talks to him, and \"\"explains\"\" that in \u003cem\u003eTatipirun\u003c\/em\u003e , no one is hurt or offended because of their behavior, no matter how strange it may seem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Walking a little further, Raimundo comes across the \u003cem\u003eOrange Tree. He\u003c\/em\u003e tells her that the orange tree has thorns and that she feels offended, but with an apology, everything is resolved. From then on, Raimundo will meet other charming characters, such as Short Trunk and Mrs. Red Spider.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Land of Naked Boys\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent choice for introducing Graciliano Ramos's work to children. With exquisite illustrations by Jean-Claude Ramos Alphen, the book will delight generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159217324284,"sku":"9788501027689","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4c6a5dc03e9a73cac6dd86075a7140d4_b031dbb1-adbd-49a7-add6-21114651059d.jpg?v=1778815347"},{"product_id":"viagem","title":"Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, where part of the copyright is directed to the NGO Inoccence Brasil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Viagem reaffirms Graciliano's commitment to social justice without compromising his literary freedom. An essential account of a time of intense political and ideological passions by one of Brazilian literature's greatest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159261987068,"sku":"9788501063861","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/05f9b4ebe86f46d6dc7edd88fb4c3ed7.jpg?v=1778320084"},{"product_id":"vidas-secas-economica-edicao-oficial","title":"Dry Lives (Economic) - Official Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, where part of the royalties go to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. Graciliano Ramos's most important book and one of the greatest classics of Brazilian literature, now in an economical edition. First published in 1938, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the miserable life of a family of migrants on their pilgrimage through the Northeastern backlands. One of the iconic works of Brazilian literary modernism, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely, moving, and cruelly truthful portrait of Brazil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eGraciliano Ramos was born in 1892 in the interior of Alagoas, and grew up on his father's farm before moving to the state capital and later to Rio de Janeiro, where he began working in the press. In 1937, he was arrested on vague charges of defending communist ideologies. Upon leaving prison, he sought work as a journalist for a Rio de Janeiro newspaper. The editor then allowed him to publish a short text, and Graciliano wrote a short story called \"Baleia\" (Whale), about the suffering and death of a family of rural migrants' dog. The story was a success, and the newspaper commissioned others in the same style. Graciliano then produced a short story for each member of the family: the father, the mother, and the two children. Thus was born \u003cem\u003eVidas secas (Dry Lives\u003c\/em\u003e ), narrated in the third person, with thirteen chapters that, because they lack temporal linearity, can be read out of order, like short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1938, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the miserable life of a family of rural migrants forced to periodically relocate to areas less affected by the drought. 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It is the novel in which Graciliano achieves the maximum expression he had been seeking in his prose: what drives the characters is the harsh, cruel drought, and paradoxically, the telluric, affective connection it exposes in those beings in retreat, searching for means of survival and a future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159329554684,"sku":"9786555877915","price":29.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e763ab78a4a260acb15fba3e189464d4_033474c8-eb79-4cce-aab1-9c37f84a1b36.jpg?v=1779851997"},{"product_id":"s-bernardo-edicao-economica","title":"St. Bernard (Economic Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eConsidered by literary critics to be one of the most important fictional texts of the Brazilian modernist movement, \u003cem\u003eS. 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Learn how he tamed a jaguar, bought a lawyer parrot, and saved a leaky canoe, and dive headfirst into these quintessentially Brazilian adventures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159389815036,"sku":"9788501078247","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/be5482e7dbbc26a3188be0cb2c0cce40.jpg?v=1778875167"},{"product_id":"vidas-secas-especial-70-anos-edicao-oficial","title":"Dry Lives (70th Anniversary Special) - Official Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, with a portion of the royalties going to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. 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This collection includes chronicles, epigrams, literary criticism articles, political speeches, letters published in the press, the first act of a play, and a short story for young people entitled \"The Thief,\" dated July 1915, among other valuable revelations discovered in archives across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159432118524,"sku":"9788501087652","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/246c93abad2f491e4fc2e262e50f8a72.jpg?v=1778323081"},{"product_id":"o-estribo-de-prata","title":"The silver stirrup","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, where a portion of the royalties go to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. Graciliano Ramos, from Alagoas, is one of the greatest icons of Brazilian literature. One of the most talented writers and chroniclers of our time. 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In \u003cem\u003e\"The Writer Mayor: Two Portraits of an Administration\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" we get a glimpse of the future writer when he was still a rising politician, mayor of Palmeira dos Índios, a small municipality in the Alagoas hinterland. From January 1928—when he took office—until April 1930, Graciliano led the municipal administration, combating waste, inefficiency, and patrimonialism, eliminating overbilling, completing half-finished projects, and diligently protecting the quality of life of its residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe two annual reports he made to the state governor, from 1929 and 1930, are now published for the first time in a separate volume. In them, Graciliano reveals himself to be an exemplary public figure. 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