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Faleceu em dezembro de 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"o-tigre-na-sombra","title":"The tiger in the shadow","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the biggest publishing phenomena in Brazil, with more than 1.2 million copies sold, with a literary career spanning more than thirty years and a repertoire of 23 published books, Lya won over the public with her beautiful philosophical chronicles about life and its mysteries - including the surprising book of essays \u003cem\u003ePerdas \u0026amp; Ganhes\u003c\/em\u003e , from 2003, a resounding success with the public, which had rights sold to several countries and remained at the top of the bestseller lists for 113 weeks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Tiger in the Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e , Lya remains faithful to her universe of mystery, magic, and very real human dramas that, in one way or another, touch us all. Difficult romantic and family relationships are the foundation upon which her characters walk. The struggle between life and death underlies all the other themes. The enigmatic element remains in many figures, such as the singular Grandma, whose origins are unknown and who was once a mermaid, brought to earth by the love of her sailor grandfather; the baby Cyclops; the tormented father who sleeps with a revolver under his pillow; the favorite daughter, Dahlia, who plunges into despair; the tiger who, in the shadow of a small, nonexistent forest, stalks everything; or the drowned people of the beach house called Casa do Mar, who come to the water's edge at night and speak with the main character, Dôda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDôda is a different girl. She was born with a shorter leg, but despite her disability, she is the mistress of all mysteries: she treads paths others cannot reach, like the world within the mirrors—which, according to her, have a life of their own and observe us. Dôda records everyone's story, speaks for everyone, feels and suffers for everyone. She plays with the imaginary child of a childless woman; she is accompanied, in her dance through this dream world, by the velvet steps of a docile blue-eyed tiger; and she dialogues with her alter ego, or her twin within the mirrors, Dolores, who in many ways is what she wishes she were. The world of the mirror is a place of freedom and poetry. The real opposite is disappointment, tragedy, rupture, an inevitable path in the search for identity for Dôda, the girl who becomes a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Tiger in the Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e , everything is surprising, but the ending is even more surprising. And we are, as always, enchanted and entangled in Lya Luft's fiction, which becomes more refined and captivating with each book.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159308091644,"sku":"9788501400963","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/00cd0029da5274e3fcce41d32226ea40.jpg?v=1778325596"},{"product_id":"perdas-e-ganhos-edicao-de-bolso","title":"Losses and Gains (Pocket Edition)","description":"800x600 Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 \/* Style Definitions *\/ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:\"Normal Table\"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:´; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-to-margin:0cm; mso-to-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";} Lya Luft's greatest success, with nearly 1 million copies sold, was a major revelation in the Brazilian publishing market in 2003, when she released *Perdas \u0026amp; Ganhes*, which remained at the top of the bestseller lists nationwide for 113 weeks. A mix of essay and memoir, written in a conversational tone, especially with women, the book has the right arrangement and an intense seductive power. The author emphasizes the strength of life and the need to reinvent it. Between joys, discoveries, disappointments, and quests, the work is a personal testimony about the experience of growing up. Lya invites the reader to be her imaginary friend, her accomplice, and companion in reflection. Besides being a denunciation of frivolity and superficiality, it is also a book against bitterness, which often tends to dominate the soul with the arrival of old age.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159322575100,"sku":"9788577991341","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5eddf85643ef1b049836992885e15b75_35b7ff82-3eae-4e60-b7d8-6ed8921948d3.jpg?v=1778320015"},{"product_id":"o-lado-fatal","title":"The fatal side","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fatal Side\u003c\/em\u003e is a poetic catharsis, in which Lya Luft pours out her grief in metaphors that fill our eyes with tears and our hearts with empathy. Originally published in 1988, the book was out of print for many years, only available in secondhand bookstores by admirers of the author's poetry. This edition by Editora Record allows readers to once again be moved by the work's lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e With extreme sensitivity, the author—a publishing phenomenon in Brazil and around the world, and one of the most respected contemporary writers—turns us into her imaginary friends: accomplices and companions in reflections on the complexity of human relationships and the power of feelings. These poems exude the enchantment of words, revealing the virulence of pain, of nonconformity with one's own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBy verbalizing her deepest feelings, she restructures her life based on this loss. A zero point in a life remade in death: step by step, with small, everyday acts that bring relief and comfort in their predictability and constancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The poetry gains strength from the humanity of its writing. Through its simple language, its lyrical recap of the experiences of a broken love, its insight into the relationships established between the living and the dead, and its fragmentary yet concatenated narrative, this book is a delicate ode to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Fatal Side\u003c\/em\u003e strikes us with its poignancy and precision, elaborating on the most solitary human emotion: the greatest loss, grief. We've all been there. We'll all be there. Once again, the author speaks for us in this book about death, pain, and recovery. More than a must-read, the poems collected here constitute a fundamental study of the human soul in the face of the fragility and strength of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159337124092,"sku":"9788501095312","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b28de03bf1c3910a0ff7e4df503f1c9e.jpg?v=1778325653"},{"product_id":"a-casa-inventada","title":"The Invented House","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLya Luft returns to her more literary side, with her poetic prose composing beautiful metaphors and reflections on life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eUsing a hybrid genre – a mix of novel, essay and autofiction –, Lya Luft outlines the script for the house she wants to invent, designing, one by one, the rooms, elements and details necessary for this construction: the spy door, Pandora's mirror, the family room, the children's bedroom, the basement of afflictions, the everyday courtyard, the garden of the gods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e A home is, at first glance, a physical space, an expression of its inhabitants. But it's also a metaphor for existence: a home for family and affection, friendship and love, but also for pain, frustration, trauma, and even death, in an understanding that everything must be harmoniously sheltered within this home we've invented. Half made of choices; the other half, miracles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159341482236,"sku":"9788501112057","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/69fec37ad72849490f4363cd1d9abda2.jpg?v=1779938371"},{"product_id":"as-coisas-humanas","title":"Human things","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLya Luft is generous: in times of self-absorbed literature, the writer — a radical creator — once again invites the reader to take a place in her intimacy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis is an artist who faces life—who faces life's greatest pain—through the weaving of words. Through the unique poetic prose that characterizes her work, for which there is only one classification, \"the Lya Luft genre,\" the author reflects on what she defines as \u003cem\u003e\"Human Things\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" contemplating the beautiful and ugly sides of existence, the light and the heavy, the things that are easily dealt with and the hardest to bear. Lya summons the reader and gradually unveils meanings: childhood and old age, joy and terror, family, loneliness and love, work and struggle, beauty, mystery, and death—everything that makes us human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"This isn't meant to be a dark or tragic book, but a celebration of many good and beautiful things, like childhood, family, love, reading, art, nature, and friendship. Of course, sad things, like heartbreak, misunderstanding, abandonment, fear, frustration, doubt, and death are also part of life. But for my reader, my faithful imaginary friend, I hope this is a message of clarity, and that, despite everything, it resonates, here and there, with the blessing of joy in what has been experienced and what is yet to be experienced.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — Lya Luft\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159418388732,"sku":"9788501117786","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c97c5fdd998f961eb41457e5fa85f2ba.jpg?v=1778321709"},{"product_id":"a-riqueza-do-mundo","title":"The wealth of the world","description":"\" \u003cp\u003eWith a literary career spanning over thirty years and dozens of books published in Brazil and translated in several countries, novelist, poet, columnist, translator, and essayist Lya Luft has established herself as one of Brazil's greatest publishing phenomena. With over 1.2 million copies sold in the country, Lya has won over thousands of readers with her beautiful poetic prose. \u003cem\u003e\"The Wealth of the World\u003c\/em\u003e \" marks her return to the genre that definitively established her in 2003, with the astonishing book of essays \u003cem\u003e\"Perdas \u0026amp; Ganhes\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" a huge success, acclaimed by critics and the public alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This work presents a collection of short essays, like chronicles or articles, in which the author addresses the reader in a more direct and conversational manner than in her novels or short stories. This book is at once harsh and poetic, yet always questioning—in the author's style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn her writings, Lya Luft addresses the human existential drama, our common perplexities, education, family, authority, morality \u003cem\u003eversus\u003c\/em\u003e moralism, and some of our society's most pressing issues, such as war, poverty, politics, and others. She also discusses how we view, use, or create the world's wealth, whether natural, intellectual, artistic, emotional, or economic. She discusses what we conquer or are granted: the delusions of art, the adventures of science, the plowed fields, the seas and skies we explore. But she also writes about what we waste or kill, about the poverty born of disinterest, the pain born of betrayal, and the conflicting beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a kind of \"book of questions.\" With criticisms, doubts, moments of cold lucidity, and others of great delicacy, this book confronts us with some of our ghosts, so that, by facing them, they become less frightening.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159433887996,"sku":"9788501094056","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/941066cbfd46201d8e00e0a6a6750247.jpg?v=1778313634"},{"product_id":"historias-de-bruxa-boa","title":"Good Witch Stories","description":"In this book full of spells and fantasy, Lya Luft shows that magic is in the air: any garden can be inhabited by fairies and elves, animals can suddenly talk, a grandmother can fly on a broomstick, and a granddaughter can be a witch's helper! 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After \"Stories of the Good Witch,\" Lilibeth and her granddaughter are back to enchant and entertain children and adults alike. In a kind of family fable, Lya narrates the news in the lives of Lilibeth, her granddaughter, and her twin sisters, the evil witches Pot-Face and Window-Face, and other lovable characters. The illustrations are by painter and pediatrician Susana Luft, Isabela's mother and Lya's daughter. In \"The Return of the Good Witch,\" the reader embarks on adventures of people like us—people who move house, date, see their families grow, feel, laugh, and also cry.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159876747516,"sku":"9788501076380","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/62d0529fa60c3a6c6c61c498aaa5c5b0_4b7a6c30-c088-43c9-8ff4-64421e3f8548.jpg?v=1778325126"},{"product_id":"a-sentinela","title":"The sentinel","description":"In The Sentinel, originally published in 1994, Lya once again uses a house as a setting; a labyrinth-like house, in which a woman searches for a way out, but also tries to decipher herself along the way and ends up finding herself. \"It's a hopeful book: someone is reborn in and of themselves, and even though they harbor a final, indecipherable mystery in the grotto of their swampy garden (both internal and external), they launch themselves into life and recreate the world,\" explains the author. Always elaborating her vision of human existence as a drama, an escalation, a succession of achievements and failures, Lya introduces us to the main character of this novel, Nora, rejected by her mother, living her childhood amidst a few moments of affection from her father and petty cruelties from her sister, Lilith, the darling of the house. To the lack of love and abandonment, which would leave a deep scar on her soul, are added two tragedies: her sister's suicide and the violent death of her father. Nora's life is a succession of hopes and searches: hoping that one day her mother would begin to love her; preserving a passion that slips through her fingers; having the unconditional support of her stepsister; escaping the loveless marriage that would give her her most precious possession: her son Henrique. He seems like a sweet boy, but little by little he reveals that he is suffocated under his mother's care and paranoia. Tangled in this web, Nora teeters between anguish and emptiness. Until she decides to take control of her life and be the master of her own choices. A turning point is noted in Lya's novel: the characters in The Sentinel are no longer exclusively driven by fate, but are also responsible for their ethical, moral, and emotional choices. The plots and existential dramas, the meaning and value of life, the banal and mysterious everyday, loves and missed encounters. The choices and silences. \"I write about isolation and tenderness, our disturbing ambivalence, frivolity and cowardice, sometimes grace and laughter. 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It's part of the human drama,\" explains the author. A couple overcomes the pain of the past and finds a new, unique path; routine blinds us to the drama of those around us; hurt and anger explode into a violent liberation; prejudice against differences can be deadly; superficiality prevents us from experiencing true love; death reveals the value of life: we are all touched by mystery. \"It's a book also full of poetic flow, a wealth of symbolism, always seeking beauty and mystery, even when telling human stories. Because that's how I see life,\" she says. 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The power and beauty of the text are immediately revealed in the title. Time is a river that flows uninterruptedly; after all, from source to mouth, no mouth can stop the river and its natural course. Always raging, torrential, but never still. If the title alone inspires so much reflection, it is certain that this reading has the power to change the lives and thoughts of many. By blending memories and reflections on the passage of time, Lya creates a poignant essay on human relationships, childhood, youth, growing up and death, and the value of life—the themes and concerns that are her specialty. The book is divided into three parts—Waters Still, Tides High, and The River's Mouth—showing how time passes at different stages of life and exploring ways to enjoy the best of each. 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Lya skillfully and sensitively interweaves memories, sometimes in the first person—without this implying autobiography—and sometimes in the third person—without this implying objectivity. \"My literature doesn't emerge from calm waters: it speaks of my perplexities as a human being, it oozes from cracks where something stirs, which, unattainable, challenges me. I almost always write about what I don't know,\" reveals the author. With her delicate prose, almost intimately whispering truths into the reader's ear, Lya discusses the discoveries of a child intrigued by life and its mysteries, about the maturation of human beings, with their conflicts and joys, their courage and failures. According to Lya, \"there are themes that recur, questions that perpetuate; concerns coincide between the writer and their readers, between those who give testimony and those who watch.\" From this, she invites the reader into a game, combining lived and imagined stories, playing, enchanting, and, above all, making them think. Gradually, the reader becomes an accomplice, a friendly shoulder, a listening ear, a heart sometimes tight, sometimes surrendered, questioning alongside Lya about the anguish of not knowing what comes next, about loneliness, about each of us. \"The River in the Middle\" is a fascinating book, in which everyone will discover a little about themselves and in which it is possible to seek encouragement and a little more self-knowledge. • Lya Luft is considered one of the greatest writers in the country. 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The success of the nearly one million copies sold in Brazil and worldwide reveals the universality of her message, the scope of her sensitivity, and the astute understanding that this great writer possessed of the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAccording to Nélida Piñon, Lya Luft \"adjusts to contemporary concerns, committing to what is visible and what eludes our scrutiny.\" In this commemorative edition of the 20th anniversary of the publication of \u003cem\u003eLosses and Gains\u003c\/em\u003e , Lya once again invites readers to share with her the experience of someone who has understood the web of losses and the succession of gains that make up the plot of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"What I write here is not mere daydreaming. 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Here, she becomes the central character—sinister and seductive, a theme inescapable, yet everyone tries to deny—is treated in \u003cem\u003eThe Closed Room\u003c\/em\u003e in a dense, poetic, and mysterious manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eMadness, secrets, guilt, missed encounters, frustrated loves, fatality, omission, tenderness succumbing to negative forces make the reader feel portrayed, touched, and understood here and there. The author constructs scenes and dialogues in which delicacy and brutality alternate to delineate the harsh condition of human existence, sometimes sordid, sometimes light and pleasurable. These are small details that, revealed in Lya's text, seem familiar, real, familiar to us: they are our torments laid out in these pages, with a sober and relentless, but never condemnatory, perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"He took his first steps toward his Death, embracing her, who instructed him slowly. There was no hurry: drifting, slowly, he moved away from a world that no longer interested him. He had the face of an adolescent, almost a delicate woman. But, covered in a golden dust, he had lost his youth and wore that solemn mask: the ice of a new wisdom.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174860570876,"sku":"9788501065995","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/86daf79fc7032aa58a37bee775b2b330_c354091e-3d40-41c8-ad4e-aa346112fc6e.jpg?v=1782187197"},{"product_id":"perdas-e-ganhos-capa-dura","title":"Losses and Gains (Hardcover)","description":"With a 30-year literary career and a repertoire of over 20 published books, including novels and short stories, poetry, chronicles, essays, and children's books, Lya Luft has established herself as one of Brazil's greatest publishing phenomena in recent years. After winning over thousands of readers with her beautiful fiction, her definitive acclaim came in 2003 with the astonishing Perdas \u0026amp; Ganhos (Perks \u0026amp; Gains), which consolidated for the author a genre she herself defines as \"neither quite fiction nor quite chronicle,\" but rather an attempt to speak directly to her reader about the same themes as her poetry and fiction: the human existential drama. A huge success with the public, the book, a mix of essay and memoir, written in a tone of dialogue—especially with women—remained at the top of the bestseller lists for 113 weeks and had its rights sold to several countries. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the book's release, which has sold nearly 1 million copies over the past decade, Record is now publishing a special commemorative edition with a hardcover, a new introduction by the author, and a cover story by Nélida Piñon. Among the beautiful philosophical chronicles about life and its mysteries, Lya discusses encounters and missed encounters, the passage of time, childhood, maturity, and old age, the difficulties of romantic relationships, family relationships, and the questioning of death and life itself.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174902513916,"sku":"9788501403575","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ef9148d86a56ee4e7c3ec6235a953ac4_ffb67f5f-dbc2-4699-a556-885982f87a40.jpg?v=1778314233"},{"product_id":"as-parceiras","title":"The partners","description":"THE NEW EDITION OF LYA LUFT'S FIRST NOVEL Lya Luft's seminal fiction debut, As parcerias (The Partners) is a feminine perspective on a family marked by madness, death, and disintegration. 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A perceptive columnist, Lya describes the book as an unpretentious commentary by a Brazilian who is no expert on the subject, but weaves a perspective on what is happening to us. Divided into four parts—Love and Pain, The Foundations, The Landscape, and Without Illusions—*Landscape Brazil* is composed of a series of short reflections interspersed with the optimistic desire for a solution. Accustomed to playing with words and characters, to probing the unfathomable, Lya spared no expense, nor was she afraid to reveal her opinion. Written in simple, colloquial language, the book is a direct conversation with the reader, presenting the perspective of someone lost in this confusing and unstable landscape, full of contradictions and with an uncertain destiny. 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As if on a stage, surrounded by symbolic doors, the complex contemporary world before her, the author summons her \"tribe\" for the necessary ritual of reflection. The focus is on fundamental issues such as aging and youth, the new dilemmas and taboos of sexuality, virtual communication, the boundaries between private and public, drugs, violence, kindness and perversity, and social unrest: key elements of our daily routine. She discusses these \"modern myths\" we create to become masters of our will, which she ponders in an open dialogue with the reader. \"I like this more direct way of speaking to my reader about, deep down, parts of the human existential drama, and some of the madness of our society, our culture. About swimming against the current to avoid being shipwrecked in the herd spirit of our times. In short, this type of essay, in the most original sense of the word, 'rehearsing—discussing a topic,' is another way of expressing myself. It's that simple,\" Lya argues. Lya also refutes the supposed freedom we have achieved. Far from a free society, we are, in our imposing culture so full of obligations, prisoners suffering from what the author calls the \"have to\" syndrome. \"The 'have to' is a very cruel slave driver. Having to be thin, beautiful, intelligent, strong, rich, blah blah blah. I, always out of line, am struck by the cruelty of the physical 'have to be.' I think we value ourselves too little as thinking human beings.\" From the search for eternal youth to ethics in politics, including family transformations, Lya Luft shows how entangled we are in oppressive practices and that it is important to take control of our lives and the path of our society and culture.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175421985020,"sku":"9788501089526","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/821eb78aeee2ad35794f5c6a70a5ff9e.jpg?v=1778322352"},{"product_id":"mar-de-dentro","title":"INLAND SEA","description":"Mar de Dentro is light yet ironic, delicate yet intense, possessing a creativity that can even be disturbing. Just like the child Lya Luft was. More than recalling her own stories, the author awakens sensory memories in the reader, such as the smell of rain on the warm earth, the wind in the leaves, the mother's perfume, the sound of the sea, the silence of the sand dunes. A text full of delicacy, yet deeply human.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175448756476,"sku":"9788501066039","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d53d179a70086a6054b73c01ab4327fe.jpg?v=1778312647"},{"product_id":"exilio","title":"EXILE","description":"Originally published in 1987 in EXÍLIO, Lya Luft narrates the saga of a woman trying to reclaim the image of her suicidal mother. Drawing from this painful universe, the acclaimed author of Perdas \u0026amp; Ganhes and Pensar é Transgredir (Perishes \u0026amp; Gains) crafts a story filled with conflict and lessons. In this contemporary tragedy, Lya Luft once again lays bare the deepest human feelings: loneliness, death, love, addiction, haunting, and disconnection.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175889420540,"sku":"9788501066053","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/75e122b140352cfd701cca9e620624b6.jpg?v=1778326038"},{"product_id":"perdas-e-ganhos-1","title":"Losses and gains","description":"Lya Luft is a woman of her time, and she bears witness to it in everything she writes, especially in this new book. A mature woman who has experienced both losses and gains, yet remains optimistic, loves life, and calls herself \"a creature of her own house\"—although not very domestic, she considers her family the center of her life, and life more important than literature. In this first book published by Record, the novelist, columnist, and poet invites the reader to reflect alongside her, to inquire, contemplate, and admire the world. \"We are not just victims of fate,\" she says. \"We are also masters of our own lives.\" In a mix of essay and memoir, Lya revisits several themes from \"O rio do meio\"—a book published in 1996, winner of the best book award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. She considers human beings at once good and capable, futile, mediocre, and even cruel. Embarked on a life that is a gift, a mystery, and a conquest at every moment. Lya believes that \"happiness is possible, that there isn't just disagreement and betrayal, but tenderness, friendship, compassion, ethics, and delicacy.\" This is what she discusses with her readers here. Amidst joys, discoveries, disappointments, and quests, in Losses \u0026amp; Gains—a book unpublished since her childhood memoir, Sea of the Inside, published in 2002—the author seeks to provide a personal account of the experience of growing up. She invites the reader to be her imaginary friend: an accomplice and companion in reflections that range from childhood to loneliness and death, to the value of life and the transcendence of everything. Lya rambles, discusses, and converses, with impetus, compassion, and often good humor, about old age, love, childhood, education, family, freedom, men and women, real people... and concludes that time passes but human emotions do not change, revealing that it is necessary to relearn what it means to be happy. A sensitive, delicate, and disturbing book by one of the most important Brazilian writers of our time, acclaimed by critics and celebrated by readers.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176794439932,"sku":"9788501067111","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d8e780afed9f173589aab3a9ce34aaaf.jpg?v=1776899078"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/lya-luft.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}