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João Anzane l lo C a r r a s c o z a

Aos sete e aos

quarenta

Letícia Wierzchowski

The Getka / Os GetkaAndrzej is a writer who wants to

find a start to his new book after the

end of his marriage. Trying to write, his memories take him to

when he was a boy and spent the summers with the family in a

desert beach. Their summers were shared with the Getka, and

there was Lylia, the brave and beautiful youngest daughter of

the Getkas. Fantasy and reality, past and present, show that

life is capricious: the doors it opens may close with no previous

warning, and no compass can ever make sure we will reach the

destination of our dreams.

The Angel and the Rest of Us / O Anjo e o resto de nósAbout to become a TV series, the book unveils

the difficulties, hates, loves, controversies

and tragedies in a family saga beautifully told

through generations.

Adriana Falcão

Black Music

Michael Philips is in his way to be a

seven-footer, when he is kidnapped

by a gang of Rio de Janeiro’s drug

dealers. Seeing at stake his dreams

of playing basketball and studying

trumpet at the same university

attended by his idol Michael Jordan,

his passion for jazz begins to

captivate both the chief dealer, a 17

years old white boy who dreams of

becoming a gansta rap star, and the

captivity’s cooker, a 16 years old

mulatto girl who loves to dance at one

of Rio’s famous bailes funk.

RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL); FRANCE (ASPHALTE)

The Machine / A Máquina

Adriana’s first novel, The Machine,

won both readers and reviewers

with the fable of a girl who dreams

of becoming an actress and seeing

the world, and of her beloved

who, afraid of losing her, promises

to travel in time to bring her the

world she craves. Besides a stage

adaptation, the book was adapted

into a successful film directed by

João Falcão and awarded a prize

at Rio Film Festival.

Arthur Dapieve Beatriz Bracher

Antonio

Benjamim is about to become a father,

and discovers a family secret. He then

decides to find out how everything

happened from the ones involved.

Three of them – his grandmother,

Isabel; Haroldo, his grandfather’s

friend; and Raul, his parents’ friend

– will tell him their versions of the

facts, and by gathering these pieces

of memory, Benjamim will solve the

puzzle of the history of his family.

In this polyphonic narrative, Beatriz

articulates general and private,

individual and historical, building

characters that are simultaneously

unique and identifiable in their social

context. Both protagonist and reader

are moved listeners to the story.

Claudia Tajes

Cintia Moscovich

Why Am I Fat, Mommy?/ Por que sou gorda, mamãe?

A writer puts on forty-eight and a

half pounds in only four years. How

could she have completely lost

control of her own body and never

even realize it? Could the roots of

the problem lie in her past, in the

family history, in all the love - and

hate - shared by children and their

parents? These are the questions

that guide journalist Cíntia

Moscovich’s highly praised novel.

As the narrator searches for the

reasons why she put on so much

weight so quickly, she embarks on

a journey through memory focused

on her Jewish family of European

immigrants, and especially on

her strained relationship with her

mother. At the end of this very

personal and often painful journey,

not only does she find her own

lost body, but also the strength to

become a full-fledged writer.

RIGHTS SOLD: ITALY (CAVALLO DI FERRO)

Vengeful / Por isso eu sou vingativa

Vengeful addresses a recurring

wish for most people, seldom

fulfilled: to take revenge for the

humiliation and injuries they have

suffered. Sara Gomes, the leading

character, owner of a bankrupt

laundry service store, lists eight

men that, from her point of view,

despised her in the past, and

moves on to revenge. Will this all

pay off? Claudia Tajes leaves it for

the reader to decide.

On The Road Again / Fé na estrada

Fé na Estrada tells the story of Eduardo

and Mariana, alter egos of writer

Dodô Azevedo and photographer

Luiza Leite, who decided to revisit the

route American writer Jack Kerouac

covered in the 1950s, leading to the

classic On the Road. They aimed at

finding what still lingered of beatnik

and countercultural in 21st Century

America. Inexperienced in the

travelling field and with little money

on their pockets, the task proved to

be an adventure. Whether it be Navajo

Indians, hallucinations with peyote tea

or federal agents mistaking the author

for an Arab terrorist, everything that

happens with the foreigners during this

unpredictable journey put them face to

face with mixed feelings - deep hatred

and love - for the American culture.

Dodô Azevedo

Pilar’s Diary Of Greece / Diário de Pilar na Grécia

Pilar loves travelling. Her series of

books is well known in Brazil. Now

she keeps a diary, describing every

moment of her first adventure.

She grew up without her dad, in

her grandpa’s house. When Pilar’s

grandpa goes to Greece and she

hears that he is never coming back,

she cannot accept it and wishes

she could go after him. With a

magic hammock, she and her best

friend Breno travel to Greece and

meet several gods along the way.

But life among them isn’t easy

and no one will ever be the same

after this adventure. Pilar’s Diary of

Greece is charmingly illustrated by

Joana Penna – the Agency’s first

represented illustrator.

Flavia Lins e Silva

The Championship / O campeonato

André will not settle down

professionally due to his

uncontrollable compulsion to

reading detective novels. Inspired by

characters such as Sherlock Holmes

and Hercule Poirot, he decides to

take a detective distance course

which will send him into a bizarre

investigation of a competition

called “The Championship”. André

goes through streets and bars

in Rio de Janeiro, and is Flavio

Carneiro’s homage to the city, as

well as to mystery novels, and to his

favourite authors – Rubem Fonseca,

especially. The book’s protagonist,

all in all, is the detective novel itself,

object of passion of heroes and

criminals.

Flavio Carneiro João Anzanello Carrascoza

At Seven And At Forty / Aos sete e aos quarenta

Carrascoza’s first novel At

Seven and At Forty reveals

the experiences of a man in

two seminal periods of human

existence. The first part, in the

1970’s, shows the character at his

coming of age, living in a small

Brazilian town in which rural culture

prevails. Back then he exercises

a discovery look. It is dream time.

In the other part, at his forties,

in 2010, he lives in a big city,

impacted by media and its ways to

make everything spectacular, and

sees himself before an inventory of

his own experiences. It is reason

time.

Livia Garcia-Roza

Liliana’s Notebook / Caderno de Liliana

Liliana’s house grew bigger and turned into a

complete mess without her mother. Roque and

Peu, the girl’s brothers, are always up to something.

Her father has no time for the kids. Her aunt and

her grandmother do not listen to her. And Jacyra,

the maid, is always busy cleaning or doing laundry.

Liliana then learns that living without a mother is

“terrible” and that she has to find a way to deal with

her absence. It is through everyday life, speech and

writing at a compass of a child, that this literary

and spontaneous narrative on learning, growing

up, losing the ones we love, and reorganising

our affections is built. In this sensitive story, with

touches of humour, Livia’s fiction is unveiled in its

best shape.

Somewhere In Paradise / Em Algum Lugar do Paraíso

From our fantasies on the first man on earth to our

anguish on the inevitable passage of time, Verissimo

makes us laugh with his sophisticated humour and

great narrative elegance. It is paradise: the talent

of one of the most respected Brazilian writers in

irresistible chronicles about time, love, and lost

opportunities – as well as those that might still be

taken.

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Justice / Justiça

Based on a conversation with a taxi

driver who was shocked by the news of a

colleague’s murder during a robbery, Soares

attempts to dissolve certainties of common sense in his new

book. What exactly is violence? Is there a relationship between

a committed crime and the punishment applied? Would Human

Rights defence stimulate impunity? The author goes to the core

of these and other issues.

Elite Squad 2 – Graphic novel / Elite da Tropa 2 – Graphic novel

The graphic novel adaptation of Elite Squad

2 counts with the collaboration of graphic

artist Marcus Wagner and revisits themes and characters from

Elite Squad (Objetiva, 2006) as well as from Elite Squad 2 (Nova

Fronteira, 2010) and the homonymous films.

Luiz Eduardo Soares

of a

LLya Luft

The World´S Wealth / A Riqueza do Mundo

With a 30-year trajectory in

Literature and more than 20

books published, novelist, poet,

translator and essayist Lya Luft

is one of the biggest Brazilian

editorial prodigies of our times,

with more than 1.2 million copies

sold. The surprising essay book

Losses and Gains, a gigantic

success with rights sold in many

countries, was at the top the

Brazilian bestselling list for 113

weeks. The World’s Wealth is dry

and poetic at the same time. Lya

tackles human existential issues,

our perplexities, education,

family, authority, morality versus

moralism, and some of the most

pungent problems of our society:

wars, poverty, politics, to name a

few.

Guerrilla Warfare: A Manual / Método Prático da Guerrilha

The name Che Guevara is not

unfamiliar, but few know the details

that led to his downfall in 1966

and 1967. Isolated in Tanzania and

depressed with the recent guerrilla

failure in the Congo, he gathers his

most faithful followers to plot a new

revolution. His goal is now Bolivia.

Tired of the Cuban bureaucracy,

he wants things done his way: no

deals, no concessions, and with

the unbeatable method he himself

created. Practical Guerrilla Warfare

is a work of fiction. It is a novel of

ambition and madness based on

true events — the last revolutionary

expedition of Che Guevara —, but

which subverts documented history,

recreating characters and scenarios.

It’s also a love story, and a pastiche,

of the few who remained by the

fighter’s side until his final moments.

RIGHTS SOLD: GERMANY (SUHRKAMP); ITALY (MONDADORI); PORTUGAL (DOM QUIXOTE); SPAIN (ALFAGUARA)

Marcelo FerroniPractical

Maria Tereza Maldonado

The Hidden Side / A Face Oculta

Humiliation, hostility and defamation

compose a three-term equation

named bullying or cyberbullying.

Luciana knows this well enough.

She stays up late on the computer,

chatting with friends, and when

Marcelo chooses her as his target

and starts to send her offensive

messages through her mobile phone,

she does not know how to deal with

this unknown enemy.

Maria Valéria Rezende

The Flight Of The Red Ibis / O Voo da Guará Vermelha

Maria Valéria’s first novel is the tale

of an unlikely and deeply moving love

between an illiterate construction

worker in São Paulo and an HIV-

positive prostitute who has lost the

will to live. He needs someone to

listen to the stories he has to tell –

even though he doesn’t know how

to read or write; she in turn needs

someone who can truly love her.

Together, these two anonymous and

invisible people weave a beautiful

tale about the need for affection that

afflicts people in the modern world. In

a truly original voice, the author draws

inspiration from classical references

such as Thousand and One Nights as

well as from the pace and language

of cordel, a traditional style of popular

writing very common in north-eastern

Brazil.

RIGHTS SOLD: FRANCE (EDITIONS MÉTAILIÉ); PORTUGAL (OFICINA DO LIVRO); SPAIN – CATALAN (CLUB EDITOR)

Marina Colasanti

My War Of Theirs / Minha guerra alheia

In this moving memoir whose

reminiscences shift from dramatic

to sweet, historical to emotive,

Marina tells of WWII seen through

the eyes of a child. The book

opens with her parent’s wedding,

travels to Africa with her family,

the years in Italy during the War,

and watches their arrival to Brazil.

The author highlights the inner

strength of the women around her,

like her mother and her baby-

sitter, who kept their heads up in

the hardest circumstances. Her

father, a happy and generous

man, volunteered at the war.

Marina tries to grasp the source of

his passion, and this questioning

and the consequences of the

conflict in her family’s life are the

substance with which she crafts

this outstanding book.

If One Of Us Die / Se um de nós morrer

Théo, traumatised with the failure

of his first book and paralised by

his incapacity to write a second

book, dies without getting rid of

the destructive impulse of writing.

After a torrid and passionate night

with his ex-girlfriend, she finds him

dead on his bed after coming back

to get the mobile phone she had

left. In a red envelope wrapped in

plastic paper he left on the drawer,

the inscription - ‘To Sofia’. Sofia

must fulfill his last wish – send to

Catalan writer Enrique Vila-Matas

some sort of legacy of anguish –

manuscripts of a book that has

never existed. So as to accomplish

the mission, she goes to Paraty,

where the 2005 edition of the

International Literary Festival of

Paraty (FLIP) is being held and

of which Vila-Matas is one of the

invited authors.

Paulo Roberto Pires

Rosa Amanda Strausz

Seven Bones And A Curse / Sete ossos e uma maldição

Eleven hair-raising short-stories are

told in Seven Bones and a Curse.

But fear does not paralyse here, on

the contrary: it makes you want to

turn page after page, quicker and

quicker - but not without taking a

deep breath first.

Sergio Rodrigues

Elza

In a bold mixture of reality and

fiction, historical research and literary

invention, this fast-paced novel

tells the real tragic story of Elza

Fernandes, a 16 year-old communist

who got involved in the famous

“Intentona” – a failed attempt to

overthrow the Brazilian government

orchestrated in 1935 by the Third

International.

RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)

Socorro AcioliSocorro Acioli

The Ghost Ballerina / A bailarina fantasma

The Theater José de Alencar was about

to be renovated. Marcelo, an architect

expert in old buildings, was hired to

coordinate the works. His mission was

to make the theater look exactly as it

looked on its first day. Marcelo was a

widower with a daughter, Anabela, who

had a scary meeting with a ghost right at

the first day of the renovation work. That

was the ghost of a young girl, a dancer,

who used to appear in the theatre.

Anabela then embarked on a journey

to the past days of that place and got

involved in a story of love, revenge and

mysteries, carried by the cold breath

and the diaphanous presence of the

ghost dancer, who would only be free

after sorting out, with Anabela’s help,

something important that she wasn’t

able to do in life.

Tony Bellotto

Down In The Hole / No Buraco

Tony Bellotto is a rock musician and writer – his new book, Down in the Hole, is in the intersection of Tony’s two

main talents. Narrated in first person, the book tells the misadventures of Teo Zanquis, a decadent rocker in his

fifties who took part of a one hit band in the 1980s. He tells of his frantic life on the road, in the golden times, and

of his recent passion for a young Korean girl he met at a record shop in São Paulo. With extraordinary dialogues,

the story is full of humour, sex, drugs, and rock’ n roll. There are many musical references from the 1980s and

backwards, which may spark varied (and pleasant) doses of nostalgia.

RIGHTS SOLD: PORTUGAL (QUETZAL)

PARTIAL AUTHOR´S LIST:CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

Adélia PRADOAlcione ARAUJOAriano SUASSUNAArthur DAPIEVEBeatriz BRACHERCarlos Herculano LOPESCíntia MOSCOVICHClaudia TAJESDodô AZEVEDOFlávio CARNEIROJoão A. CARRASCOZAJoão Silvério TREVISANLeticia WIERZCHOWSKILivia GARCIA-ROZA

Luis Fernando VERÍSSIMOLuiz Eduardo SOARESLya LUFTLygia Fagundes TELLESMarcelo FERRONIMaria Adelaide AMARALMaria Tereza MALDONADOMaria Valéria REZENDERoberto DaMATTASérgio RODRIGUESTony BELLOTTOVitor RAMIL Zuenir VENTURA

CHILDREN & YA

Adriana FALCÃOFlávia LINS E SILVALuciana SAVAGETMarcelo PIRESMarcio VASSALLOMarina COLASANTISocorro ACIOLIRosa Amanda STRAUSZ

CLASSICS

Caio Fernando ABREUCarlos DRUMMOND de ANDRADEÉrico VERÍSSIMOJoão CABRAL de MELO NETOJorge de LIMAJosé Cândido de CARVALHOMario QUINTANAOtto Lara RESENDEPaulo Emílio SALES GOMESPaulo Mendes CAMPOSRachel de QUEIROZSérgio PORTO Sylvia ORTHOF