{"title":"João Luiz Anzanello Carrascoza","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"amores-minimos","title":"Minimal loves","description":"Love in all its forms—between parents and children, siblings, lovers, and friends—is the theme of São Paulo-born João Carrascoza's new collection of short stories. The exercise of synthesis, which the writer masterfully wields over more than two decades of advertising, amplifies the whirlwind of sensations that camouflages the profound love between his characters. These are easily identifiable characters: men and women, children who roam metropolises or even small towns. In \"Amores Minimos,\" Carrascoza brings his prose closer to poetry, dissecting the feelings that arise at any stage of life. Here, there is tenderness, compassion, and the certainty that the small, almost forgettable things of our daily lives are what make life great. \"The least one can do in life is to give one's all in every moment, even if most of them are of little value,\" the writer explains emotionally. There is also a constant melancholy permeating the stories. Poetically constructed with the hopeful gaze of Carrascoza, an enthusiast of the full experience of \"great passions and small loves.\" Everything is told with delicacy and elegance. A heart recovering its capacity to love. A meeting of two. A reflection on children's school transportation. The mind's speculations about someone else. The rancor of the relationship between an absent father and son. The fever of passion between two people. Winner of the Jabuti Prize in 2007 for the anthology \"The Volume of Silence,\" since his literary debut, his careful use of language—always permeated by lyricism—has enchanted audiences and critics alike. With short, high-impact texts, \"Minimal Loves\" confirms his reputation as one of the highlights of the contemporary cultural scene.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176729231612,"sku":"9788501095008","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b2b7be88d7dcf74f79e9341c006308b0.jpg?v=1778322057"},{"product_id":"espinhos-e-alfinetes","title":"Thorns and pins","description":"For João Anzanello Carrascoza, words shape us and the world. They cause pain, like thorns and pins. But, like needles, they help heal us from ourselves. In \"THORNS AND PINS,\" his fifth book of short stories, this man who has loved words since he was a boy, discusses the different ways of experiencing goodbye, the difficult themes of loss and parting. \"When we lose someone, we also say goodbye to who we were. And, deep down, we are saying goodbye all the time, even when we welcome someone back,\" the author argues. With rare sensitivity, Carrascoza also creates a special connection with the world of childhood—it can be found in adult memories, in the experience of fatherhood, or in the exploration of its rites of passage. \"Childhood is a magical time, during which we experience, even amidst pain, a process of enchantment with the world. Later, as adults, we become blind to the beauties that once dazzled us, and then we spend the rest of our lives searching for this lost territory. Lost, but possible to rediscover within ourselves,\" he explains. In total, there are eleven short stories that once again demonstrate his inventive power and appreciation for the precise, necessary word at the moment. Carrascoza's narrators tell their stories from the perspective of children, as if childhood were the only real possibility of wonder and fantasy. The narratives, for the most part, revolve around the loss of innocence: young people are growing a shell for life and learning the childishness of all happiness. Bringing his prose closer to poetry, Carrascoza's linguistic constructions are singular and suggestive, here and there, of a kinship with Guimarães Rosa—without these ties representing a prison. Quite the contrary, this São Paulo native from Cravinhos wields language with ease, with images and comparisons that, more than poetry, seem to circumvent the meaninglessness of words, ultimately inaugurating a march toward lucidity.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176803451132,"sku":"9788501089083","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c9ee2b77166f2648beb16871f02d238b_38750834-6a2d-47b1-a447-782702ed69aa.jpg?v=1776898977"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/joao-luiz-anzanello-carrascoza.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}