{"title":"João Almino","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoão Almino nasceu em Mossoró, RN. Um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura nacional, tem sido aclamado pela crítica por seus romances\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIdeias para onde passar o fim do mundo \u003c\/em\u003e(indicado ao Prêmio Jabuti), \u003cem\u003eSamba-enredo\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e As cinco estações do amor \u003c\/em\u003e(Prêmio Casa de las Américas), \u003cem\u003eO livro das emoções\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCidade livre \u003c\/em\u003e(Prêmio Passo Fundo, finalista do Jabuti e Portugal Telecom), \u003cem\u003eEnigmas da primavera,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eEntre facas, algodão \u003c\/em\u003ee \u003cem\u003eHomem de papel \u003c\/em\u003e(finalista do Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura e semifinalista do Jabuti). Membro da ABL, com romances publicados na Argentina, Espanha, EUA, França, Holanda, Itália e México, entre outros, diplomata e autor de ensaios literários, seus escritos são também referência no tema do autoritarismo.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"as-cinco-estacoes-do-amor","title":"The Five Seasons of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOriginally released in 2001, \u003cem\u003eThe Five Seasons of Love\u003c\/em\u003e – winner of the Casa de las Américas Prize –, by João Almino, returns to bookstores in a new edition, with a new cover, an unprecedented critical review section and a blurb by Adriana Lisboa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Five Seasons of Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating work that explores the transformations that have marked Brazil over the past three decades. Offering, as the author himself describes it, \"a contemporary reflection on the dilemmas of lost youth, violence, sexual roles, and the changing face of love and friendship,\" João Almino's third novel presents itself as an ingenious metaphor for the end of an era and the illusion of the emergence of a new man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe book contrasts modern-day Brasília, marked by violence, with the city the characters knew in their youth, a place where utopia seemed possible. With captivating language, the work is narrated from a female perspective, by the character Ana, who seeks \"a meaning for the emptiness of the Central Plateau.\" The plot's central thread is the story of a love that is possible and not at all idealized. Through this, João Almino analyzes, beyond the exclusively erotic relationship, various manifestations of love: the desire for fulfillment in another, passionate love—a kind of voluntary servitude—unrequited love, the desire for possession, hungry love, among others. Through these multiple manifestations, the author reinterprets universal themes such as love and friendship, investigating how sex and sexuality influence the perception and experience of these emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 2001 and translated into several languages, including Spanish, English and Italian, \u003cem\u003eThe Five Seasons of Love\u003c\/em\u003e returns to readers in a new edition, with a new cover, a new critical review section and a blurb by Adriana Lisboa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"It's interesting to see how the novel, originally published in 2001, also finds new meaning in our times. If, \"with her youthful illusion shattered,\" João Almino's narrator seeks the other equal to her dream, she also soberly reminds us that \"the reality we don't know is always greater than all the dreams we dream.\" The sea is no longer missing. Brasília only needs the freedom of an immense sky.\" – Adriana Lisboa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “It is a necessary style in current Brazilian fiction.” – João Gilberto Noll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “Almino belongs to the lineage of those authors who expose and examine the characters’ states of mind, amplifying the possibilities of understanding and reflecting on the narrated fact.” – Luiz Ruffato\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"João Almino's literature is contemporary; without illusions, merciless with utopias and easy dreams, he writes not like a portraitist who wishes to reproduce reality, to celebrate it, but like an executioner who, stepping on reality, pushes us face down to the ground.\" - José Castello\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159399416060,"sku":"9788501923035","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/22cc0b27c3835a2d30ea8f6cafa0ef45.jpg?v=1778875983"},{"product_id":"samba-enredo","title":"Samba plot","description":"The plot of this novel by João Almino is narrated and recorded step by step by a computer in love with its owner, a writer. It centers on the kidnapping and clandestine love affairs of Brazilian President Paulo Antônio Fernandes. The humanized narrating machine questions its own existence and that of men. These, in turn, appear rectified by the artificiality of prevailing ideologies and the almost soap opera-like eroticism that permeates their emotions.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159434477820,"sku":"9788501098535","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/125950d0bffc9b68a714d54997854ecb.jpg?v=1778323122"},{"product_id":"homem-de-papel","title":"Paper man","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJoão Almino's novel revives Machado de Assis' character Counselor Aires and transports him to the 21st century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Man of Paper\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" by João Almino, a diplomat and one of the most important writers in Brazilian literature. He is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003e\"Enigmas da Primavera\"\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\"Entre facas, Algodão\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" published by Record, and is his most allegorical book. Here, the author evokes Machado de Assis, reviving the narrator-character Counselor Aires and transporting him to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIf in Machado de Assis's \u003cem\u003eEsaú e Jacó\u003c\/em\u003e , Counselor Aires is involved in a plot about two completely opposite brothers, who fight over the same woman and defend opposing political regimes (Monarchy and Republic), in this \u003cem\u003eMan of Paper\u003c\/em\u003e he takes center stage, transformed into a book, from which he manages to escape into the real world, ruled by ignorance and stupidity. The copy he holds belongs to the young diplomat Flor, a triplet of Hugo and Miguel, who, like Machado de Assis's twins, are in a perpetual political feud. Was Flor born to disrupt the symmetry? Or would she be an epicenter of balance in the dispute between the brothers?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The counselor faces social media and must adapt to the speed at which news spreads. Unlike the late 19th and early 20th centuries, each news item now creates millions and millions of \"truths,\" the consequences of which are often irreparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOn the book's blurb, Hélio Guimarães, a professor at USP, writes: \"Moving between farce, parody, satire, and tragicomedy, João Almino masterfully strikes many comic notes. His humor dispels any suggestion that the past was much better than the present. Here, as in Machado, the conviction that jealousy, betrayal, fear, pride, and vanity may change direction, but maintain the freshness of the first head of lettuce our ancestors pulled from the earth, remains valid.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “João Almino masterfully plays many comic notes.” - Hélio Guimarães\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e “A lesson in literature: surprising and intelligent.” - Abel Barros Baptista\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175491846396,"sku":"9786555873962","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/bbfae105b1ef20ca2ff503e5f8f5ff47.jpg?v=1778322282"},{"product_id":"enigmas-da-primavera","title":"Spring Riddles","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJoão Almino masterfully brings together the protests of the Spanish indignados with the Brazilian demonstrations of June 2013, in this \u003cem\u003eEnigmas of Spring\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnigmas of Spring\u003c\/em\u003e updates the most widely read love story in Arabic literature, originally recorded in verse by the Persian poet Nizami in the 12th century. In João Almino's story, young Majnun falls in love with Laila, a married woman fifteen years his senior. Unable to experience this love, Majnun searches, confused and insatiable, for answers to his weaknesses and delusions. He spends his days writing a novel and an essay on tolerance in Islam. Absorbed in his reading, he blends fiction and reality in his relationship with medieval Spain. Wherever he goes in Brasília, he encounters his obsession with Laila and his existential doubts, nearly driving him mad. Suspected of the murder of Laila's husband, he sees a trip to Spain during World Youth Day 2011 as an opportunity for escape. There, he learns more about religion, faith, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"A candid and profound reflection on the lack of alternatives, this book is also about reason, which, combined with imagination, creates solutions. Not the abstract and omnipotent reason capable of promoting horror, but a reason that seeks to test the world and learn, in the perennial struggle between tolerance and intolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The quixotic pace of the narrative, the books that are inscribed within the book, the failed hero, religion and faith, the East and the West, Islam, Christianity and Judaism, Brazil and the world, everything is condensed in this novel in which youth and politics join hands, as if to remember that, not so long ago, the impossible still seemed necessary and urgent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFaced with the most dubious springs, the protagonist searches, confused and insatiable, for the horizon that comforts, but which insists on remaining distant. This is a book about the theft of utopia, and therefore about our time. But it is also, in the end, a high and resounding bet on the rebirth of hope. Enigmas of Spring, in short, is about the time when the future and desire meet, with the writer as the sole and anguished witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e - Pedro Moreira Monteiro, who signs the book's blurb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"A book about the theft of utopia, and therefore about our time. But also, in the end, a high and resounding bet on the rebirth of hope. Pedro Meira Monteiro It's hard to imagine a bolder aesthetic achievement for a renowned author.\" - João Cezar de Castro Rocha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"It highlights your ability to keep the narrative thread very secure.\" - Alcir Pécora\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"\"When reading João Almino and a few others, I feel that Brazilian literature remains alive and effervescent.\"\" - Ignácio de Loyola Brandão\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"It produces a real spell effect.\" - Sébastien Lapaque, Le Figaro Littéraire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"It is the migrant voices that João Almino's keen ear has been surprising. He captures them with his relentless novelistic kodak.\" -Silviano Santiago\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"A smart and moving account of loss and love that confirms Almino's place as one of Brazil's greatest living novelists.\" - Brendan Driscoll, Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"A novel of intensities, of passionate encounters, for both the narrator and the reader.\" - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"When the reader comes to his senses, he has been swallowed.\" - Walnice Nogueira Galvão\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175903740156,"sku":"9788501103192","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d7b3ad65d96211d02cbf52cf20db8061_5c588edf-7d34-477e-8a2e-1b286aba06c9.jpg?v=1778311733"},{"product_id":"entre-facas-algodao","title":"Between knives, cotton","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCombining the narrative talent of a good storyteller with a classic plot of love and family, \u003cem\u003eEntre facas, Algodão\u003c\/em\u003e presents a novel with the mark of João Almino's narrative talent.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"If it's true that every great city only becomes adult when it has novelists to represent it, young Brasília is mature: with works like \u003cem\u003e*Free City\u003c\/em\u003e *, \u003cem\u003e*The Book of Emotions*\u003c\/em\u003e , and \u003cem\u003e*Enigmas of Spring\u003c\/em\u003e *, João Almino has been building a contemporary novelistic landscape that has put the country's capital on the map of Brazilian literary prose. It's not a Brasília of suits and ties, or the official, icy Brasília of political power. João Almino's narrative talent always has a strong grassroots root, uniting the genius of a good storyteller with the backdrop of a city whose essence is still, in fact, the whole of Brazil. \u003cbr\u003eIn this film \u003cem\u003eBetween Knives and Cotton\u003c\/em\u003e , we follow the diary of a man who, at age 70, separates from his wife, leaves Taguatinga, and returns to his geographical and mental childhood. As a child, he saw his father murdered (\"blood, so much blood\"), and feels the void of memory and affection that he needs to restore to give renewed meaning to his life. Living alone, far from his three children, he buys the Riacho Negro farm, the theater of his upbringing, and immerses himself in the ever-attempting and always-impossible mission of recovering the time that was lost.\u003cbr\u003e In the late project, there's the insidious breath and engine of revenge. The instantaneous modernity of those who use WhatsApp and feel at ease on the computer is experienced side by side with the heavy shadow of an archaic and terrifying universe: one must avenge one's father, this inescapable motto of the atavistic culture of violence. \u003cbr\u003eAt the same time, it's a classic story of love and family, of fractured feelings. This emotional depth, tempered by direct language and the literary power of orality, recreated with tranquil clarity, gives João Almino's novel its stylistic hallmark of intense narrative lightness—the gift of a text that, through empathy, captivates us from the first to the last page.\" - Cristovão Tezza\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"Besides retirement, I'm going to live off growing corn, beans, and even cotton—an absurd idea, I know, you don't have to tell me. But there's an emotional reason: it reminds me of my childhood. I'll talk about that later, without revealing everything. In fact, instead of the previous sentence, I had written a few lines here that I decided to cross out. If I find the right way to phrase it, I might be able to bring them back in a possible revision. (...) \u003cbr\u003eLooking out the airplane window at the plateaus—is it the Mantiqueira?—I let another being that lived inside me appear, another me I've always fought against. A sad being, with a tender and contented sadness, that relaxes into its own nature. That perhaps wants to find a future in the past, I have to admit. We have no control over what we remember. And what we remember can insist on never leaving, even waking us up in the middle of the night. It can be here or there from what happened.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175904067836,"sku":"9788501109231","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c4e5c1788e62b3099d3bfe364fb27a65_9b558ca1-6419-4bd5-b5be-93aef65ae5d1.jpg?v=1778322650"},{"product_id":"cidade-livre","title":"Free city","description":"João Almino's novel, the fifth in a series currently focusing on the founding period, reluctantly confirms his status as a \"novelist of Brasília.\" But caveat lector, reader beware. The plethora of historical notes and even statistics obscures the terrain mined by the nature of fiction. The social farandole is orchestrated: candangos, contractors, profiteers of shady deals (the narrator's father is one of them), idealists, politicians, mystics of the salvationist sect. Visitors are scrupulously recorded. We know that Aldous Huxley, Fidel Castro, André Malraux, Foster Dulles, John dos Passos, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others were there. Juscelino Kubitschek was president of the Republic, and engineer Bernardo Sayão was overseeing construction when he was killed by a falling tree. The account is intended to be compiled as a blog, incorporating the insights of other bloggers. However, the reader immediately suspects everything, wondering why João Almino is mentioned in the acknowledgments, while the narrator is called João on the rare occasions his name appears. The wiles of fiction. Little by little, like a carnivorous flower, bewitching the unwary with fragrances and nuances, the imaginary world of the capital's pseudo-chronicler emerges. When the reader comes to, they have been swallowed up: Brasília has established itself as a microcosm and metaphor for the country, the universe, existence, or that dizzying whirlwind that is subjectivity. 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