{"title":"Martha Mendonca","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"filhas-de-eva","title":"Daughters of Eve","description":"A new perspective on the whirlwind of feelings within women. One of the minds behind the website Sensacionalista, Martha Mendonça has a keen nose for identifying the most curious figures and a sharp pen for transforming them into the most delightful literature. Just as it's impossible for a scandal to escape the country's most widely read online humor tabloid, nothing escapes the gaze of Martha, a keen observer and humorous fiction writer of women's daily lives—characters already proven by extracting small literary gems from the trivial and the mundane in \"Canalha: a feminine noun\" and \"40: a feminine romance.\" In the short stories of this series, \"Filhas de Eva,\" the author offers a new perspective on the whirlwind of feelings within women—or on how the same feeling can inhabit each one in such a unique way. Whether through the form or content of her narratives, Martha reveals the strength and exacerbated extremes of her characters. With her original and lighthearted style, she examines the relationships and intimacy of the female universe, mixing criticism and humor in delightful stories.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159541170428,"sku":"9788501107527","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/aa49a37a69a7ee5cb0387c800c54dd8c.jpg?v=1778324408"},{"product_id":"eu-e-voce-voce-e-eu","title":"Me and you, you and me","description":"Do you know what your partner is thinking? Have you ever imagined that it might be just the opposite of what you think? The same fact can be interpreted differently by two people. Hence so much friction in relationships. This is the case in \"You and Me, You and Me.\" In a light and moving narrative, the book tells the story of the ups and downs of Marcelo and Mariana's love. He, caught between masculine standards and the fragility of being in love. She, a beautiful, more insecure woman, who turns a corner upon achieving professional success. The two take turns narrating the couple's journey, from the moment they met, still very young, to maturity, each with their own perspective. They tell exactly the same story—although they see it very differently.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175901708540,"sku":"9788501084750","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/a835e2e5b6db840f723ea11219459c74_2b5fe0b5-d9f9-4f87-955d-f478b89e32c8.jpg?v=1778317744"},{"product_id":"canalha-substantivo-feminino","title":"Scoundrel, feminine noun","description":"\"A clever, cruel, and very funny book\" – Mirian Gondelberg Who said only men know how to be scoundrels? After her first foray as a playwright—with the play \"Os defamantes\"—and co-authoring the books \"Eu e você, você e eu\" and \"Mulheres no Ataque,\" Rio de Janeiro journalist Martha Mendonça, in her first solo book, tackles a very particular universe: female scoundrelism. In \"SCOUNDREL, FEMININE NOUN,\" Martha subverts the gender cliché that always places men and women in the same roles, showing that women, when they want to, know exactly how to be scoundrels. Scoundrelism is not a male privilege. In six fictional accounts, the controversial anti-heroines Larissa, Cristina, Ângela, Diana, Ingrid, and Mariana—from different generations and in different contexts, but united by the same uncontrollable and terrible inclination—recount, in the first person, where their amoral natures have led them. They are not angry, and they do not seek revenge. They're not the ex-wife who alienates children from their parents or the ex-girlfriend who scratches a guy's car when she gets dumped. They just can't help but be... scoundrels. They act for pleasure, out of a need to manipulate and get ahead. Some parts of the stories are based on true stories, but most come from the author's fertile imagination or from feelings she's experienced or witnessed in her friends. The desire to cheat on the perfect man, sleep with a sly friend's husband, live off a fool, or kill a jerk. After all, for her, deep down—and not so deep down—every woman has a scoundrel (to a greater or lesser extent) inside her. It's up to each woman to allow it to manifest itself or simply keep it all in the realm of imagination. As anthropologist Mirian Goldenberg, who wrote the book's blurb, aptly describes it, \"CANALHA, FEMININE NOUN is a book to make you think, to distrust, to generate curiosity, to provoke. A book to make you laugh a lot and also cry a little. Especially for the man who has suffered at the hands of a delightful scoundrel.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176295612668,"sku":"9788501091703","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/00b6d156707b405e082751ca9f1e74e6.jpg?v=1778322417"},{"product_id":"40-um-romance-feminino","title":"40: A women's novel","description":"In her second solo book, writer and journalist Martha Mendonça confesses that she even considered changing the channel, but the feminine theme ends up \"overriding the alternatives.\" After delving into the reality of contemporary women in \"Mulheres no Ataque\" (written in partnership with Carla Rodrigues); adopting the feminine perspective of a relationship in the novel co-written with her husband (and fellow journalist) Nelito Fernandes in \"Eu e você, você e eu\" (I and you, you and I); and incorporating characters that subvert the cliché that only men are scoundrels in \"Canalha, noun feminine\" (Canalha, noun feminine), Martha delves once again into the world of women in her new novel. And this time, into a very particular one: that of women in their forties. Paula thought she had it all, but, on the eve of her 40th birthday, what seemed certain turns upside down: she loses her job and is replaced by another. Instead of the stability expected of so-called \"middle age,\" she faces a new beginning. From emptiness and despair, a different woman is born—and, who knows, perhaps better than the one so full of certainties and marked paths. With a healthy dose of reality and purity, but without neglecting the humor and irony characteristic of her writing, the author conveys well what it means to be a 40-year-old woman: having the dreams, innocence, and fear of a lost little girl left behind, but also possessing the wisdom, clarity, and melancholy of a seasoned woman waiting for her ahead. Unlike the protagonist, the author's 40th birthday came without any major setbacks, except for an \"internal upheaval\" that made her reflect deeply on what age meant. \"A moment when most people imagine they'll have their lives—personal, professional, financial—settled, ready to calmly reap the fruits of what was sown. But obviously, that's not the case for many people. Maybe for most.\" With this in mind, she imagined what a character whose life turned upside down at this very moment would be like. And so Paula was born, whose big turning point came with the discovery that being forced to start over in middle age can be a gift from destiny.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176730444028,"sku":"9788501097743","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/01c110e1d0dadeeab726e3867fe13bf1_8b08bc40-46ee-4591-902d-291eafd002b4.jpg?v=1778314233"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/martha-mendonca.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}