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If this be treason : translation and its dyscontents : a memoir
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ISBN: 0811216195 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : New Directions Books,


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The Brazilian people : the formation and meaning of Brazil
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ISBN: 0813023831 9780813023830 Year: 2000 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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"This is the first English-language translation of the culmination of the life work of Darcy Ribeiro, one of Brazil's leading twentieth-century intellectuals, known internationally both for his work in Indian affairs and for his political activism. First published as O Povo Brosileiro in 1995, two years before Ribeiro's death, it quickly became a controversial best-seller." "Offering a sweeping overview of the ethnic, racial, and social forces that shape Brazilian culture and society, the book presents no less than an aesthetic of the Brazilian people as a whole. While Ribeiro dwells on the paradox of Brazil as a country of immense potential hindered by racial and class prejudice, he also says it is "the most beautiful and luminous province on earth.""--Jacket.

The Brazilian people : the formation and meaning of Brazil
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ISBN: 0813017777 Year: 2000 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

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In evil hour.
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ISBN: 0330265962 9780330265966 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Picador

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One hundred years of solitude.
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ISBN: 038001503X Year: 1971 Publisher: New York Avon Books

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Quincas Borba : a novel
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ISBN: 1280760974 1423741013 019802665X 1602561370 9781423741015 9780195106824 0195106822 9780195106817 0195106814 9786610760978 6610760977 0199880395 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English speaking readers. When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation: Rubiao must take care of Quincas Borba's dog, who is also


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One hundred years of solitude
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ISBN: 9780141184999 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Camberwell : Penguin Books,

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Famously associated with the term ‘magical realism’, Marquez is probably South America’s most famous literary export. Equally tragic, joyful and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude inhabits a strange dream-like space where very little makes real sense, but everything is mysteriously and vividly alive nonetheless. Blending fantasy and reality seamlessly, the characters struggle hopelessly against a merciless backdrop of madness, corruption and death…all measured out equally with farce and fatality; as profound a statement on the human condition as possible. In every sense, this is literature on the grandest of scales. An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy with comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

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Leaf storm, and other stories
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ISBN: 0330256882 9780330256889 Year: 1979 Publisher: London : Pan Books,

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Innocent Eréndira : and other stories
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ISBN: 0330261622 Year: 1983 Publisher: London : Pan books,

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The mulatta and mister Fly
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ISBN: 0140068708 Year: 1984 Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin books,

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