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Falling in love with a neighbor, he decides to interfere in other people's lives and ends up changing his own destiny. A woman for whom the imposition of a change of country, and home, leads to liberation over her body, sexuality, and marriage. A couple who wander through the rooms of the house, where they find themselves literally and emotionally trapped, and for whom the discomfort of a leak in the bathroom is an excuse to spill everything that is never said.\n The common thread of the stories is that the house appears as a physical shelter, walls that protect madness and obsessions, but which also imprison and deteriorate, as an intimate dwelling that ultimately becomes \u003ci\u003ethe alter ego\u003c\/i\u003e of the bodies themselves.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159342137596,"sku":"9788501117168","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8fed241262ba2c84f2657aef93118c40_b6f3c889-7ee2-48da-ae6c-4e53566032f4.jpg?v=1778321248"},{"product_id":"sonata-em-auschwitz","title":"Sonata in Auschwitz","description":"With breathtaking descriptions and dialogue that reveal the best and cruelest in human nature, Sonata in Auschwitz confirms the author's calling for historical fiction. A baby born in the barracks of Auschwitz-Birkenau in October 1944 and a sonata composed by a young German officer on the same date, also in Auschwitz, give rise to two intersecting and complementary stories. Decades later, Amália, a Portuguese woman of German descent, begins to lift the veil on her family's Nazi past through a score revealed to her by her great-grandmother. The doubt that her grandfather, presumed dead before the end of World War II, might still be alive in Rio de Janeiro leads Amália to cross the ocean and meet a Jewish couple who survived the Holocaust. The rise of Nazism in Berlin, the saga of the Hungarian Jews of Transylvania, the mysteries of the Polish extermination camp, and the post-war period in a house full of secrets on the shores of a Potsdam lake provide the paths Amália will follow to piece together the puzzle. Luize Valente is an author whose plots spring from her privileged imagination and are fleshed out through rigorous historical research. Crafted with extreme sensitivity and investigative precision, her narrative immerses the reader in mystery, suspense, and profound feelings.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159396499708,"sku":"9788501111333","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/80f4ad2b5069852dade2c3a72d52dbe7_03967558-c86c-49ce-ac6f-d40b0ce26530.jpg?v=1778316242"},{"product_id":"uma-praca-em-antuerpia","title":"A square in Antwerp","description":"After her literary debut, *The Secret of the Oratory*, a critical and commercial success, Luize Valente returns, even more surprisingly, to the story of a migrant family in *A Square in Antwerp*. With masterful narrative that weaves back and forth between New Year's Eve 2000 in Copacabana and the years surrounding the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Luize reconstructs the misfortune inflicted by Nazism on the Jews, the reason many of them would come to Brazil. Combining sensitivity to human drama and extensive historical research, Luize portrays the scourge of Nazism in the minutiae of everyday life, in the intimacy of German and European families, with barbaric developments in Portugal, in the home of Clarice and Olivia, from where the narrative sets out to conquer the world and Brazil. We follow the flight of Clarice and her husband, the Jewish pianist Theodor, across much of Europe, always one step ahead of Nazi persecution, an escape that leads part of the family to cross the ocean. As if this breathtaking narrative weren't enough, Luize presents the reader with a thrilling and totally unexpected ending.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159972856060,"sku":"9788501103178","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/59705467cde084497563619adffc2fee_58cbe7ef-c668-4b92-8ebb-e3a457b3af32.jpg?v=1778326032"},{"product_id":"o-segredo-do-oratorio","title":"The secret of oratory","description":"The Secret of the Oratory is a revealing novel about the history of Jews in Brazil. Ioná, a native of Paraíba and a descendant of New Christians, discovers that her family harbors an important mystery about her ancestors. 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