SPECIAL LIST 149:
FICTION

AUGUST 2010




1. ADAMOPOULOS, Sarah. Fado menor. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2005. Colecção Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 203 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 989-555-143-6. $25.00
Novella, or brief novel, about life in Portugal from the 1940s to the beginning of the twentyfirst century. The author, a journalist, was born in Rotterdam in 1964. She grew up in the Netherlands and in Portugal. In the 1980s she began her career in journalism, working for O Independente. She has worked in radio, and collaborated in various reviews, including Notícias Magazine. This appears to be her fifth book.


2. AGUIAR, João. A voz dos deuses. 28th ed. Porto: Asa, 2007. Obras de João Aguiar. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 366 pp., (1 l. biographical chronology). ISBN: 978-972-41-1072-1. $38.00
The author's first book, originally published in 1984. In the year 147 B.C. several thousand Lusitanian warriors are surrounded by the troops of the Roman praetor Caius Vetilius. The Lusitanians elect a supreme commander, named Viriato, who manages to hold off the Romans for seven years, until he is assassinated. The novel displays Viriato's military, political and diplomatic genius, as well as evoking a lost world, eventually smothered by the more powerful Romans, but which left some deep marks in Spain and Portugal. The author has published fourteen novels and novellas, two volumes of short fiction, as well as literature for children. His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, and Bulgarian.


3. AIRES, Fernando. Histórias do entardecer. Angra do Heroísmo: SREC / DRAC, 1988. Colecção Gaivota, 62. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 49 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: none. $20.00
Prémio "Nunes da Rosa"—Concurso Literário Açores/88.


4. AIRES, Fernando. Memórias da cidade cercada. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1995. Colecção Garajau, 28. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 181 pp. ISBN: 972–689–086–1. $25.00


5. AL BERTO, pseud. [i.e. Alberto Raposo Pidiwell Tavares, 1948–1997]. Lunário. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1999. Obras de Al Berto, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 163 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l.), edges rouged. ISBN: 972–37–0508–7. $19.00
First published 1988.


6. ALVÃO, G. Alpoim, and Sério A[ugusto] Pereira. Contos de guerra. [Chaves]: Intertermal, 1994. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 159, (1) pp. ISBN: none. $28.00
Fictionalized accounts based on action in Guiné just prior to April 1974.


7. ALVIM, Pedro. Santíssima Trindade. Lisbon: Vega, 1994. O Chão da Palavra / Ficção. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 123 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-699-319-9. $18.00
Novella combining carnal love with interpretation of Christian dogma.


8. AMARO, Luís, Eugénio Lisboa, and Carlos A. Azevedo, et al. Leiamos. Lisbon: Escritor, 2003. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 50 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-8590-61-X. $10.00
Includes short fiction, poetry, and essays.


9. ÂNGELO, Miguel. A queda de um homem: ensaio para romance. 3rd ed. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1998. Talvez Ler, 12. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 137, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04550–0. $20.00
Said to be the author's first novel (i.e. novella?).


10. ANTUNES, António Lobo. As naus. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1988. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN: none. $40.00
FIRST EDITION of the final novel in the tetralogy with Explicação dos pásaros (1981), Fado Alexandrino (1983), and Auto dos danados (1985). The psychiatric physician Lobo Antunes, born in Lisbon in 1942, is considered by some to be Portugal's greatest living writer of fiction. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 38-40.


11. ANTUNES, Irene. As pedras não dormem vestidas. Lisbon: Vega, 1997. O Chão da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 228 pp. ISBN: 972–699–550–7. $25.00
The author has previously had published Cantos da terceira margem, and Um lugar para Rosa.


12. ASSIS, Joaquim Maria Machado de (1839-1908). Esaú e Jacó. Lisbon: Universitária, 1999. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 201 pp. ISBN: 972-700-108-4. $15.00


13. BAPTISTA, António Alçada. Tia Suzana, meu amor. 6th ed. Lisbon: Presença, 1995. Colecção Aura, 12. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 99 pp. ISBN: 972-23-0987-0. $15.00
The first edition of this novella appeared in 1989.


14. BAPTISTA-BASTOS, [Armando]. A colina de cristal. 4th ed. Porto: Asa, 2000. Colecção Biblioteca Baptista-Bastos. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 191, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-41-2371-5. $25.00
This novella, or brief novel, was first published in 1987. It was awarded the Prémio Pen Club as well as the Prémio Cidade de Lisboa. Urbano Tavares Rodrigues considered it "um novo padrão na literatura portuguesa." Baptista-Bastos has published ten volumes of fiction, the first nine of which have had multiple editions. He has also published at least four volumes of essays, and seven of journalism (interviews which appeared in the press, etc.).


15. BAPTISTA-BASTOS, [Armando]. Elegia para um caixão vazio. 4th ed. Porto: Asa, 2001. Colecção Biblioteca Baptista-Bastos. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 151, (1) pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-41-2664-1. $25.00
This novella was first published in 1984. It has been acclaimed by critics such as Eduardo Lourenço, Eduardo Prado Coelho, and Maria Lúcia Lepecki.


16. BARBOSA, Miguel [Artur de Morais e Macedo Alves]. O marinheiro cego pensando na Índia. Lisbon: Ulmeiro, 1994. Imagem do Corpo, 47. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 124 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-706-235-0. $18.00
The author of this novel was awarded the Grand Prize for Poetry "Moulin de l'Ecluse," 1993, Carnac, France. See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 390-3.


17. BESSA–LUÍS, Agustina. Conversações com Dmitri e outras fantasias. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1992. Ficção Portuguesa, 18. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 112 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–708–155–X. $20.00


18. BESSA-LUÍS, [Maria] Agustina [Ferreira Teixeira]. Memórias laurentinas, romance. Lisbon: Guimarães, 1996. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 299 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-665-395-9. $35.00


19. BESSA-LUÍS, [Maria] Agustina [Ferreira Teixeira]. Ordens menores, romance. Lisbon: Guimarães, 1992. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 355 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-665-377-0. $35.00


20. BESSA-LUÍS, [Maria] Agustina [Ferreira Teixeira]. Vale abraão, romance. Lisbon: Guimarães, 1991. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 305 pp. ISBN: 972-665-369-X. $35.00


21. BOTELHO, Fernanda. As contadoras de histórias. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Presença, 1999. Grandes Narrativas, 68. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp., (1 p. adv.). ISBN: 972–23–2367–9. $25.00
These stories were first published December 1998. The author's novel A gata e a fábula was awarded the Prémio Camilo Castelo Branco in 1960 (it achieved at least six editions, the most recent published in 2005). The author's ninth volume of fiction, Dramaticamente vestida de negro (1994) was awarded the Prémio Pen Clube Português, Romance; she won the Prémio Nacional de Novelística in 1971 for Lourenço é nome de jogral (2nd ed., 1991); was awarded both the Prémio da Crítica and the Troféu da Revista Mulher in 1987 for Esta noite sonhei com Brueghel (4th ed., 1989); and won the Prémio Eça de Queirós in 1991 for Festa em casa de flores (1990). For more on the novelist, short short writer, poet and essayist [Maria] Fernanda [de Faria e Castro] Botelho (born Porto, 1926), see Luís Forjaz Trigueiros in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 69-71; Júlio Carvalho in Biblos, I, 726-8; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 424-6.


22. BRAGA, Teófilo (1843-1924). Contos tradicionais do povo português. Preface for this edition by João Leal. 2 volumes. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995-1998. Colecção Portugal de Perto, Biblioteca de Etnografia e Antropologia, 14-15. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 280; 301 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0206-6; 972-20-0207-4. 2 volumes. $55.00
Originally published in 1883. This edition also includes the author's preface to the 1914 second edition.


23. BRAGANÇA, Nuno [Manuel Maria Caupers de, 1929-1985]. Directa. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995. Obras Completas, 2. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 284 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–20–1263–0. $28.00
This novel originally appeared in 1977. The author (1929–1985), from one of the most aristocratic Portuguese families, became radicalized in the 1960s, became a friend of both Mário Soares and Salgado Zenha, and clandestinely interviewed Álvaro Cunhal. He collaborated with the group of Livraria Moraes, and was a founder of the review O tempo e o modo, to which he was a constant contributor between 1963 and 1969. See Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos, in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 75-6; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 653-4; and, Cristina Robalo C. Oliveira in Biblos, I, 752-3.


24. BRAGANÇA, Nuno [Manuel Maria Caupers de, 1929-1985]. Do fim do mundo. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1997. Obras Completas, 5. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 85 pp. ISBN: 972–20–1407–2. $16.00
This novella was originally published after the author's death, in 1985.


25. BRAGANÇA, Nuno [Manuel Maria Caupers de, 1929-1985]. A noite e o riso. 4th ed. Preface by Manuel Gusmão. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995. Obras Completas, 1. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 281, (1) pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–20–1264–9. $30.00
The author's earliest novel, first published 1969. The preface appeared originally in the third edition.


26. BRAGANÇA, Nuno [Manuel Maria Caupers de, 1929-1985]. Square Tolstoi. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1996. Obras Completas, 3. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 233 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–20–1315–7. $25.00
This novel originally appeared in 1981.


27. BRANDÃO, Raul [Germano (1867-1930)]. El-Rei Junot. Lisbon: Arquimedes Livros, 2006. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. (1 l.), 344 pp., (2 ll.), illus. One of 80 copies. ISBN: 972-8917-17-1. $30.00
Facsimile reprint of the Lisbon 1912 first edition. On Raul Brandão, see Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 79-82.


28. BRITO, Casimiro [Cavaco Correia] de. Contos da morte eufórica. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1984. Autores de Língua Portuguesa; Obras de Casimiro de Abreu. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 137 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none. $15.00
On the author, born Loulé, 1938, see Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 83-4.


29. BRITO, Casimiro [Cavaco Correia] de. Imitação do prazer, romance. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1991. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-0910-9. $20.00
First published 1977.


30. BRITO, Casimiro [Cavaco Correia] de. Pátria sensível, ou que fazer do corpo com seus rios, margens & afluentes, romance. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1983. Autores de Língua Portuguesa; Obras de Casimiro de Abreu. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 296 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. blank, 1 l.). ISBN: none. $25.00


31. BRITO, Rui de. Nos olhos do camaleão. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2001. Contemporânea, 49. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 354, (1) pp., (1 p. adv.). ISBN: 972-1-04972-7. $35.00
Novel by the author of Sud Express, set in a Portugal closed to the world, from the end of the Second World War until the final years of Salazar. The history of a German multinational firm operating in Portugal in a world of international industrial espionage. Episodes also take place in divided Germany, as well as in Egypt and Switzerland. The main characters are Portuguese, German, and French.


32. BRUM, Margarida. Em casa de estranhos. Lisbon: Editorial Bizâncio, 2005. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 310 pp. ISBN: 972-53-0255-9. $30.00
Second novel by a promising young writer born in the Açores. Her first novel, Enquanto esta música durar és só minha (2001), was well received by the critics.


33. BRUNN, Albert von, ed. Carris de papel: o caminho-de-ferro na literatura portuguesa. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 247 pp. ISBN: 972–21-1800-5. $25.00
Brilliantly-conceived anthology of railway literature, including poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs and essays. Authors represented are Guerra Junqueiro, Fernando Pessoa, Ruy Cinatti, Luís Veiga Leitão, Natália Correia, José Viale Moutinho, Eça de Queiroz, Fialho de Almeida, Vergílio Ferreira, Altino do Tojal, Alves Redol, Mário Braga, Sérgio Luís de Carvalho, Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco, António Nobre, Alberto d'Oliveira, Aquilino Ribeiro, José Rodrigues Miguéis, Miguel Torga, Vitorino Nemésio, Ruben A., Ilse Losa, José Jorge Letria, Francisco José Viegas, and Agustina Bessa-Luís. The editor, born in Switzerland in 1954, has been for some time administrator of the Portuguese and Brazilian collections at the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich and professor at the University of Zürich. He provides an interesting and informative introduction, which appears not to be a translation, and never to have been published previously in any language. At the end of the book is a brief profile of each author (pp. 241-7).


34. CABRAL, A.[ntónio] M.[anuel] Pires. Sancirilo, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1996. Colecção Excelsior. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 277 pp. ISBN: 972-46-0801-8. $28.00
Sancirilo, a dictatorship, prepares for its annual miracle: an amphora in which the blood of St. Cyril liquefies on the 15th of November, at 11:18 A.M. The miracle forms the basis of the only income for this "integralista" country. Amado Mestre, the Supreme leader of Sancirilo is gravely ill, and in need of a transfusion of a rare blood type, probably identical to that of the Saint. Meanwhile, Elias Brósio, Judas Ormin and Esdras Harpix are engaged in a struggle to see who will succeed to power. Silas, a simple chauffeur and enthusiastic defender of the regime, at last begins to reveal his true thoughts. The author, born in Chacim, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Trás-os-Montes, in 1941, displays a certain ruralism in his early poetry, and in much of his fiction. He has written several historical novels set in his native region. In addition to fiction and poetry, he has published plays and essays. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 89; also João Bigotte Chorão in Biblos, I, 832-3.


35. CABRAL, Eunice. O azul deserto da tarde. Mem Martins: Europa América, (1987). Colecção Século XX, 276. 8º, orig. illus. wrps. 128 pp. ISBN: none. $15.00
Winner of the Prémio de Revelação de Ficção 1987 de A.P.E./I.P.L.L.


36. CABRAL, Filomena. Em demanda da Europa. Porto: Campo das Letras, 1997. Campo da Literatura, 13. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 138 pp. ISBN: 972–610–048–8. $26.00
The author of this novel (b. Porto, 1944), which includes some poetry in the text, has published at least 4 volumes of poetry and 12 of fiction. A resident of Angola in the 1960s and 1970s, she has been published and awarded prizes in Brazil, and was co-founder of the journal Serpente (1983).


37. CABRITA, António. Cegueira de rios. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1994. Ficção Portuguesa, 24. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 92 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-708-223-8. $18.00
The author of these short stories, António Cabrita, has written at least two volumes of fiction, and four of poetry. He also co-authored a play about Camilo Castelo Branco with Maria Velho da Costa.


38. CACHAPA, Possidónio. A materna doçura. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1998. A Phala, 14. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 299 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–37–0497–8. $50.00
FIRST EDITION. According to a blurb on the leaf preceding the title page, "Possidónio Cachapa é escritor, mergulhador, contador de histórias, pintor, professor, agricultor, dançarino de valsas e pasodobles, realizador de cinema, argumentista, ingénuo, boa pessoa e mágico aos olhos da filha que semeia feijão com ele e controla o mundo do alto dos seus ombros gigantescos de cavaleiro nobre. Possidónio Cachapa é um nome complicado para um escritor que vive entre o céu e o mar."


39. CACHAPA, Possidónio. Materna doçura. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2004. Colecção Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 245 pp. ISBN: 989-555-072-3. $32.00


40. CAJÃO, Luís. O inventor de fantasmas, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167, (1) pp., (4 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–8334–40–6. $25.00
Writer of fiction, essayist, translator and musicologist, [José] Luís Cajão was born in Figueira da Foz, 1920; he lived a number of years on the island of Príncipe. He was awarded the Prémio Ricardo Malheiro in 1971 by the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa for a book of short stories, Um Castelo na Escócia. His short stories have been translated into Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish and German. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 91; Taborda de Vasconcelos in Biblos, I, 841-2; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 59-61.


41. CARDOSO, Dulce Maria. Campo de sangue. Porto: Asa, 2002. Finisterra: Autores Contemporâneos de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 296 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-41-2820-2. $38.00
This first novel was awarded the Grande Prémio "Acontece" de Romance by a unanimous jury. The author, born in Trás-os-Montes in 1964, traveled to Angola as an infant, returning to Portugal in 1975. She has written screenplays and short stories.


42. CARDOSO, Miguel Esteves. A vida inteira. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1995. A Phala, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 203 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972–37–0178–2. $20.00
The author has produced several works of fiction, as well as plays, and a number of other books. He holds a doctorate [in Political Philosophy?] from the University of Manchester (1983).


43. CARDOSO, Orlando. O espanto da lua, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 86 pp., (6 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–9484–44–9. $20.00
The author's volume of poems, Trinta dias em maio, was awarded the Prémio Ary dos Santos by the Câmara Municipal de Grândola, 1991.


44. CARLOS, Jorge. O Português ou escravos da esperança. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. Colecção Instantes de Leitura, 42. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 68 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–610–644–3. $18.00
This novella was awarded the Prémio Edmundo Bettencourt, 2002, and the Prémio Literário Cidade do Funchal by the Câmara Municipal do Funchal. The author was born in Rio de Janeiro, 1952. He has worked as a journalist, in the theater, and as an artist. Some of his writings have appeared under the pseudonym João Maiara; he is also known as Mané do Café for his pictures made from coffee.


45. CARNEIRO, José Pinto. Todas se apaixonam por mim. Comédia (quase) romântica. Lisbon: Guerra & Paz, 2008. Colecção Tempos Modernos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 175 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8014-83-2. $35.00
The author was born in the North of Portugal in 1967, and was living in Lisbon at the time this book appeared, working as a "guionista" for television programs. He briefly practiced law before publishing his first novel, described as "quase policial", O estranho caso da boazona que me entrou pelo escritório adentro (1994). A volume of short stories followed, Vende-se (1996), then the novel Surdo (1999), the juvenile novella O Cinturão Negro (2002), and the novella Os leões de cuangar (2006). José Pinto Carneiro has also written screenplays, and most recently has worked on the soap opera Vila Faia.


46. CARNEIRO, José Pinto. Vende-se, contos. Lisbon: Cotovia, 1996. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 118 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8028-61-X. $20.00


47. CARVALHO, A.M. Galopim de. Os homens não tapam as orelhas. Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1997. Colecção Excelsior. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 163 pp. ISBN: 972–46–0816–6. $19.00
Novel dealing with life in the military.


48. CARVALHO, António Borges de. Os parágrafos do engenheiro Simões. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1998. Contemporânea, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 162 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–1–04445–8. $24.00


49. CARVALHO, Bernardo. O sol se põe em São Paulo. Lisbon: Cotovia, 2007. Colecção Sabiá. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 166 pp., (1 l. colophon). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-795-203-8. $30.00
First published in Brazil earlier in 2007 by Companhia das Letras, São Paulo. The author of this novella, Bernardo Carvalho (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1960), is the author of at least eleven books; his work has been published in Portugal, Brazil, France, Italy, and Sweden. Mongolia (2003), a novel based on travel to Mongolia in 2002, was awarded the Prémio Jabuti as well as the Prémio APCA. Another novel, Nove noites, (2002) won the prémios PT and Machado de Assis, awarded by the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.


50. CARVALHO, Mário de. Fantasia para dois coronéis e uma piscina, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 2003. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 227 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1592-8. $28.00
New novel by an author whose work has enjoyed both commercial and critical success. O livro grande de Tebas, Navio e Mariana (1982) won the Prémio Cidade de Lisboa. A paixão do Conde de Fróis (1986; 3rd ed. 1993) was awarded the Prémio Dom Dinis. Quatrocentos mil sestércios (1991) won the Grande Prémio APE for short stories in 1992; Se perguntarem por mim, não estou, seguido de Haja harmonia (1999) received the same award. Um deus passeando pela brisa da tarde (1994), an historical novel set in the ancient world, interweaving passages from Virgil, the Satyricon, and the Bible with the narrative, was awarded the Grande Prémio do Romance, 1995, by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. In 1996 it received the Prémio Fernando Namora. The seven editions printed over six years consisted of a total of 18,000 copies—few Portuguese novels have printings of more than 2–3,000 copies, and most stay in–print for years without subsequent editions. Awarded the Pegasus Prize, the book has been translated into English by Gregory Rebassa. The present novel had an initial printing of 10,000 copies, also unusual in Portugal.


51. CARVALHO, Rodrigo Guedes de. A casa quieta, romance. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 263 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2857-X. $32.00
First published May 2005; this third edition appeared in July the same year. The author is a journalist, born in Porto, 1964. This is his second novel. His first, Daqui a nada (1992), was the winner in Portugal of the Prémio Jovens Talentos, sponsored by the United Nations. In 1997 he received the Prémio Especial of the Jury for the International Festival of FIGRA, in France, for investigative reporting about hospital emergency rooms. His play Os pés no arame opened in Lisbon in 2002.


52. CARVALHO, Rodrigo Leal de. Requiem por Irina Ostrakoff. Macau: Livros do Oriente, 1993. Colecção Macau / Leituras. Tall 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 301 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-9418-13-6. $35.00
Novel patterned after English colonial fiction of Kipling, Conrad, and Somerset Maugham, which terminates in Macau, ca. 1917, with Russian and Chinese revolutions in the background.


53. CARVALHO, Sérgio Luís de. Anno Domini 1348. Sintra: Câmara Municipal, 1990. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 235 pp., (2 ll.), illus. ISBN: none. $25.00
The author of this historical novel, born Lisbon, 1959, is a professional historian who has written various volumes of historical scholarship as well as textbooks. Set in the fourteenth century, this is his first historical novel. It was awarded the Prémio Literário Ferreira de Castro, 1991. He has since written at least two other historical novels, As horas de Monsaraz (1997), set in the sixteenth century, and El-Rei pastor (2000), set in the thirteenth century.


54. CARVALHO, Sérgio Luís de. As horas de Monsaraz. Porto: Campo das Letras, 1997. Campo de Estreia, 9. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 293 pp. ISBN: 972–610–051–8. $28.00


55. CASSAMO, Suleiman. O regresso do morto, contos. Lisbon: Caminho, 1997. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 81. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 90 pp., (3 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972–21–1098–5. $18.00
The author's O regresso do morto, first published in Moçambique, 1989, was awarded the Prémio da Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos. That book has been translated and published in French. Suleiman Cassamo, a native of Moçambique, was living in Maputo at the time this edition appeared, and was a professor at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. In 1996 he was elected Secretary–General of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos.


56. CASTANHEIRA, Alexandre. Hoje ainda, contos. Lisbon: Orion, 1987. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: none. $12.00
The author was born in Almada in 1928. He has published at least four volumes of poetry, four plays, five volumes of essays, one of stories, a book for children, and a volume of "crónicas". See Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 574-5.


57. CASTRO, João Osório de. O milagre da pedra. 2nd ed. Júlio Gil, illus. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. Contos em Memória, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 121 pp., (1 l.), illus. (some in color). ISBN: 972-9181-18-7. $18.00
On the dramatist and short story writer João [Fonseca] Osório de Castro (b. Lisbon, 1926), see Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 467-8.


58. CASTRO, João Osório de. Ninguém me pode vender a Arrábida. 2nd ed. Júlio Gil, illus. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. Contos em Memória, 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 116 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-9181-19-5. $18.00


59. CASTRO, João Osório de. Os sustos do senhor inspector. (Lisbon and Mafra?): ELO, 1992. Contos em Memória, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 216 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.), color illus. ISBN: 972-9181-20-9. $25.00


60. CASTRO, [Paulo] Sousa e. Caçar a gosto. Lisbon: the Author, 2000. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 118 pp, (1 l.), illus. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972-98254-0-8. $20.00


61. CLÁUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui (Manuel Pinto) Barbot Costa]. Guilhermina, romance. 5th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2007. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 151 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-972-20-3314-5. $28.00
Fictionalized biographical sketch of the musician Guilhermina Suggia. First published by the Imprensa Nacional, 1986. The author, born in Porto, 1941, has published at least 20 volumes of fiction, some of which were awarded literary prizes, as well as at least 5 volumes of poetry, two each of theater and criticism, 5 volumes of essays and travels, a photobiography of António Nobre, and an anthology. He has also translated William Beckford and Virginia Woolf, and wrote, under his real name, a book on illiteracy in Portugal. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 129-31; also Cristina R. Cordeiro Oliveira in Biblos, I, 1168-9.


62. CLÁUDIO, Mário, pseud. [i.e. Rui (Manuel Pinto) Barbot Costa]. Improviso para duas estrelas de papel. Porto: Afrontamento, 1983. Fixões, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 67 pp, (1 l.). ISBN: none. $20.00
Short stories.


63. COELHO, João Paulo Borges. Campo de trânsito, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 2007. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 62. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1864-4. $30.00
Born Porto, 1955, the author has acquired Mozambique nationality. Historian on the faculty of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, he has dedicated himself to investigating the colonial and subsequent civil wars in Moçambique. He has published various academic texts in Mozambique, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Spain and Canada. This short novel is his seventh volume of fiction.


64. COELHO, Tereza. Tentação: uma novela de Tereza Coelho, a partir de um argumento de Joaquim Leitão, baseado numa ideia original de Tino Navarro e Joaquim Leitão. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. Contemporânea, 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 135, (1) pp. ISBN: 972–1–04394–X. $19.00


65. CONRADO, Júlio. Maldito entre mulheres. Lisbon: Colibri, 1999. Autores Portugueses. Série Ficção, 6. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 145 pp., (2 ll.). One of 1,000 copies. ISBN: 972–772–050–1. $20.00
The author of this novel has published fourteen books, including fiction, poetry and essays. He has written for Jornal de notícias, Diário de Lisboa, O século, Diário popular, Vida mundial, Jornal de letras and Colóquio–letras. For more on the novelist, poet, essayist and literary critic Júlio [Martins Custódio] Conrado, see Jorge Colaço in Biblos, I, 1259; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI.


66. CORREIA, Emílio Sampaio. Isabel de Aragão: romance descritivo em forma de guião. Tapada de Vale Lobos, Almargem do Bispo: Padrões Culturais Editora, 2005. Coleccão Sonhos Literários, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 139, (1) pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-8721-52-8. $22.00
The author of this historical novella was born in Nova Lisboa, in the province of Huambo, Angola, 1959. This appears to be his first book.


67. CORREIA, Hélia. A casa eterna. Lisbon: Dom Quixote / Circulo de Leitores, 1991. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 242 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0896-X. $40.00
FIRST EDITION. On the author (b. Lisbon, 1949), see Maria de Lourdes Netto Simões in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 140–1.


68. CORREIA, Hélia. A casa eterna. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1999. Ficção Portuguesa, 52. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 210 pp., (1 l. balnk, 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–708–508–3. $24.00
This significant novel was first published by Dom Quixote, 1991.


69. CORREIA, João de Araújo. Contos e novelas: contos bárbaros, contos durienses, terra ingrata. Preface by João Bigotte Chorão. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2007. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 393 pp., (1 l. advt., 1 l. colophon). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 978-972-27-1582-9. $55.00
The preface, original to the present edition, occupies pp. 7-19. This is the 5th edition of Contos bárbaros, which first appeared in Régua, 1939; it is the 3rd edition of Contos durienses, which was originally published in Régua, 1941; and the 4th edition of Terra ingrata, which was first published in Lisbon, 1946.


70. COSME, Leonel. Crioulos e brasileiros de Angola. Introduction by Pires Laranjeira. Lisbon: Novo Imbondeiro, 2001. Estudos e Documentos. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 102 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8102-11-9. $28.00


71. COSTA, Pedro Freire. O mercador da galáxia. Vasco Avillez, illus. Lisbon: Editorial Bizâncio, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 167 pp. ISBN: 972-53-0299-0. $25.00
The author, born Lisbon, 1950. At the time this juvenile science fiction novella appeared he was professor of physiology at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. It is his first work of fiction for younger readers. Another novella by Freire Costa, for adults, O tempo da ceia, was published by Quetzal in its series Graffiti in 1992.


72. COSTA, Vasco Pereira da. Plantador de palavras, vendedor de lérias. Coimbra: Câmara Municipal, 1984. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 95 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none. $25.00
This collection of stories was awarded the Prémio Literário Miguel Torga, Cidade de Coimbra.


73. COUTO, Mia. A varanda do Frangipani, romance. FIRST EDITION. Lisbon: Caminho, 1996. Uma Terra Sem Amos, 76. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 154 pp., (3 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972–21–1050–0. $50.00
We have in stock one copy of this first edition, published in 1996. This novel has achieved both critical and commercial success. Born in Beira, Moçambique, in 1955, Mia Couto was editor of the review Tempo and of the newspaper Notícias de Maputo. His first novel, Terra sonâmbula, appeared in 1991; a second, Estórias abensonhadas, followed in 1994 (5th ed., 2000). A Varanda do Frangipani (1996, 5th ed., 2000), has achieved both critical and commercial success. He has published several collections of short stories, at least one of which—Vozes anoitecidas—was translated into English and published by Heinemann; his books have been translated as well into Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch. He has also published a book of poetry. The Prémio Vergílio Ferreira was awarded to Mia Couto in 1999 for his work as a whole.


74. COUTO, Mia. Venenos de Deus, remédios do Diabo: as incuráveis vidas de Vila Cacimba. 3rd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2008. Outras Margens: Autores Estrangeiros de Língua Portuguesa, 75. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 188 pp. ISBN: 978-972-21-1987-0. $38.00
First published earlier the same year. A total of 35,000 copies are said to have been sold!


75. COUTO, Mia. Vinte e Zinco. Lisbon: Caminho, 1999. Caminho de Abril. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1250-3. $14.00
The Colecção Caminho de Abril was commissioned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 25th of April 1974 revolution. A group of authors, almost all habitually published by Caminho, were asked to write a work of fiction relating, either directly or indirectly, to the events of that date. All the volumes were published in April of 1999.


76. CRUZ, Bento da. Histórias da vermelhinha. Porto: Domingos Barreira, (1991). Colecção Coisas Novas, 9. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 196 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-656-139-6. $20.00
Short stories.


77. CRUZ, Bento da. Histórias de Lana–Caprina. Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1998. Obras de Bento da Cruz. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 289 pp. ISBN: 972–4609–17–0. $29.00


78. CRUZ, Bento da. O lobo guerrilheiro, romance. Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1992. Obras de Bento da Cruz. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 338 pp. ISBN: 972-46-0568-X. $25.00
This novel set in Civil-War Spain was awarded the Prémio Literário Diário de Notícias, 1991. The prize jury consisted of Agustina Bessa-Luís, Diogo Pires Aurélio, Lídia Jorge, Vergílio Ferreira and Viale Moutinho.


79. DEGERINE, Manuela. Jardins de Queluz. Lisbon: Difel, 1994. Colecção Literatura Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 229 pp. ISBN: 972–29–0310–1. $25.00
The author, a native of Lisbon, resided in Goa and Macau, traveled widely in China and the Philippines, and after a stay in Brazil, settled in Paris. This her second novel takes place in the 1940s and 1950s, in Lisbon, Porto, and Queluz.


80. DINIS, Júlio, pseud. [i.e. Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho, 1839-1871]. A morgadinha dos canaviais, romance. Porto: Porto Editora, 2004. Mundo das Letras. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 576 pp. ISBN: 972-0-04203-6. $35.00
On the short-lived physician, playwright, poet and novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Júlio Dinis, born in Porto of a Portuguese father and English mother, see Isabel Pires de Lima in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 166-8; Helena Carvalhão Buescu in Biblos, II, 155-60; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, II, 208-9; Saraiva & Lopes, História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 801-2, 804-8, et passim; Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 314-6, 317, 324.


81. DINIS, Júlio, pseud. [i.e. Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho, 1839-1871]. As pupilas do Senhor Reitor. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2005. Colecção Clássicos, 88. 8°, publ. illus. bds. with d.j. 325, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-1-05500-X. $35.00
"Nota introdutória: Júlio Dinis, o homem e a obra" by J. Tomaz Ferreira occupies pp. [5]-29.


82. DIONÍSIO, Eduarda. As histórias não têm fim. Lisbon: Cotovia, 1997. Livros Cotovia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 333 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–8028–90–3. $35.00
Born in Lisbon, 1946, the author has written for the theater and journals such as A capital, Diário de Lisboa, Seara Nova, Crítica (1971-2, of which she was a co-founder), Gazeta, and Combate. She is also a painter. Her Histórias, memórias, imagens e mitos duma geração curiosa was awarded the Prémio Pen Club, 1981. She was a co-founder of the theater group "ContraRegra"—with which she worked from 1983 to 1987—and has participated in various productions (Groupo de Teatro da Faculdade de Letras, Teatro da Cornucópia, O bando), some as an actress.


83. DIREITINHO, José Riço. A casa do fim. 2nd ed. Porto: Asa, 2007. Obras de José Riço Direitinho. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 93 pp., (1 p. advt., 1 p.). ISBN: 972-41-1014-1. $20.00
These short stories, the first book by this author, born in Lisbon, 1965, were first published in 1992. Between 1985 and 1991 he contributed more than 100 texts to the "DN Jovem" supplement of the Diário de notícias. In 1988 he was awarded the "Literatura na Universidade" prize by the Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Ciências do Porto. He was awarded the Prémio Ramón Gomez de la Serna for Breviário das más inclinações (1994; 2nd ed., 1997), set in the imaginary Vilarinho dos Loivos, and won the Prémio Villa de Madrid for O relógio do Cárcere. Direitinho returned to Vilarinho dos Loivos in the novella Um sorriso inesperado. His work has appeared in translation in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Great Britain, and Israel.


84. DURÃO, Rosário. Um caju no quintal. Lisbon: Pergaminho, 1997. Colecção Prosa 21, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 117 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–711–101–7. $15.00
The author of this novella was born in Moçambique, lived ten years in Zimbabwe, studying there before moving on to take an undergraduate degree in modern languages, and a master's degree in English literature from the University of Lisbon.


85. ESPANCA, Florbela [de Alma da Conceição, 1894-1930]. A charneca ao entardecer: contos escolhidos. 3rd ed. Selecção, organização e introdução de José Luís Peixoto. Vila Nova da Famalicão: Quasi, 2007. Biblioteca Em Nome da Terra. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 87 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-552-248-4. $25.00
First published 2002. On the short-lived poet, novelist and short story writer Florbela Espanca, a native of Vila Viçosa, see Cecília Barreira in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 177-8; José Carlos Seabra Pereira in Biblos, II, 378-82; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 472-5.


86. ÉVORA, Fernando. Como se de uma fábula se tratasse: uma novela a propósito do entendimento da vida. Portimão: Câmara Municipal, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 70 pp. ISBN: 989-95012-1-2. $15.00
Awarded honorable mention in competition for the Prémio Manuel Teixeira Gomes.


87. FERIN, Madalena. Bem-vindos ao caos. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1996. Col. Garajau, 35. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 144 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–689–111–6. $22.00
The author's O anjo fálico was awarded the Prémio "Antero de Quental" (Poesia), Concurso Literário dos Açores, 1990. She was born in Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel, Açores, the daughter of the neo–romantic poet Armando Monteiro.


88. FERREIRA, Seomara da Veiga. Crónica esquecida d'el rei D. João II. Lisbon: Presença, 1995. Novos Continentes, 66. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 353 pp. ISBN: 972-23-1942-6. $30.00
This apocryphal chronicle of one of Portugal's most important rulers, the second work of fiction by this author, born in Lisbon, 1942, received some positive comments in the Diário de Notícias shortly after publication. Her historical novel in the form of the memoirs of Nero's mother, Memórias de Agripina, was well–received both critically and commercially. An historian, she has published various works in journals and in book form, and was responsible for the television series "Os Romanos entre nós."


89. FERREIRA, Vergílio (1916-1996). Aparição. 54th ed. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 2000. Obras de Vergílio Ferreira. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 272 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0251-4. $30.00


90. FERREIRA, Vergílio. Cartas a Sandra. 6th ed. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1999. Obras de Vergílio Ferreira. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 154 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0971-3. $22.00
The first edition of this brief novel, or long novella, appeared in 1996.


91. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. A década perdida. Translated from the English by M.F. Gonçalves de Azevedo. Lisbon: Estampa, 1989. Colecção Ficções, 10. 8º, orig. illus. wrps. 251 pp., (2 l.). ISBN: 972-33-0796-0. $25.00
Includes "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Rich Boy", "Absolution", "Three Hours Between Planes", and "The Lost Decade".


92. FONSECA, Rubem. Ela e outras mulheres. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2008. Campo da Literatura, 159. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 148 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-989-625-220-5. $32.00
These short stories were first published in São Paulo, 2006. The author, born in Minas Gerais in 1925, has written at least 9 volumes of short stories, 4 novels, a novella, and an anthology. Several of his books have been awarded literary prizes, including the Prémio Camões and the Prémio Jabuti.


93. FONSECA, Rubem. A grande arte, romance. First edition published in Portugal. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007. Campo da Literatura, 152. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 322 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-625-196-3. $45.00
This novel was first published in Brazil, 1983. It was translated into English and published by Harper & Row in 1986 as High Art.


94. FRANÇA, José-Augusto. Despedida breve e outros contos. 2nd ed. Lisbon: AconTecimenTo, 2006. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-972-8011-50-5. $35.00
First published 1958. José-Augusto França is one of Portugal's leading art and cultural historians, as well as being an important critic, literary figure, and intellectual. He was a leader in the introduction of surrealism to Portugal. After a long absence, he has recently returned to writing fiction; within the past several years a number of new novels and works of short fiction have appeared. See Álvaro Manuel Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 201-2; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, V, 203-6; and Fernando J.B. Martinho in Biblos, II, 677-8.


95. FRANCLIM, S., pseud. [i.e. Sérgio Sousa-Rodrigues]. O último maçon: contos do amor e do impossível. Lisbon: Hugin, 2003. Biblioteca Phantastica. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 104 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-794-170-2. $25.00
The author, born in 1978, has published at least three volumes of poetry, three previous works of non-fiction prose and one volume of fiction. The collection is directed by António de Macedo.


96. FREIRE, João Rui. Marta sem idade. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 2002. Contemporânea, 62. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 113, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–05024–5. $28.00
The author previously published a collection of short stories and a volume of poetry.


97. GARCIA, Eduíno Borges. Ilhéus, Portugas & os outros, contos. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1995. Colecção Garajau, 30. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 159 pp. ISBN: 972–689–087–X. $25.00


98. GARCIA, José Martins. Contrabando original. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1997. Colecção Garajau, 41. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 282 pp. ISBN: 972–689–116–7. $35.00
This novel was first published in 1987. As of ca. 1999 the author had published 6 novels (several of which enjoyed more than one edition), 7 collections of short stories, 4 volumes of poetry, two of plays, and 11 volumes of essays and criticism.


99. GASPAR, Frank X. Deixando a Ilha do Pico. Manuela Torres, trans. Lisbon: Salamandra, 2002. Colecção Garajau, 97. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 251 pp., (3 pp. adv.). ISBN: 972–689–204–X. $33.00
Originally published as Leaving Pico (1999). The poet Frank X. Gaspar's first novel is about growing up in a Portuguese community in Provincetown.


100. GERSÃO, Teolinda. O cavalo de sol, romance. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1989. 8º, orig. illus. wrps. 214 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0747-5. $25.00
FIRST EDITION. The author, who spent her youth in Lourenço Marques, was awarded the Prémio de Romance e Novela da A.P.E. for 1996, and twice awarded the Prémio de Ficção by the PEN Clube. Teolinda [Maria de Castilho] Gersão was born in Coimbra, 1940, grew up in Moçambique, studied at Coimbra, Tübingen and Berlin, and has been a professor on the faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. See Isabel Allegro de Magalhães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 220–2; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 627-9; and Ana Teresa Diogo in Biblos, II, 819-22.


101. GERSÃO, Teolinda. Os guarda-chuvas cintilantes, diário. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1997. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 131, (1) pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-20-1397-1. $20.00
This novella in diary form was first published 1994.


102. GERSÃO, Teolinda. Paisagem com mulher e mar ao fundo (romance). 4th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1996. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 196 pp. ISBN: 972–20–1358–0. $20.00
First published 1982.


103. GOMES, Luísa Costa, and Abel Barros Baptista. O defunto elegante. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1996. Ficção Portuguesa, 36. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 240 pp., (2 ll., 1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972–708–31–5. $25.00
A Chinese citizen is barbarously defenestrated in Portugal.


104. GOMES, Luísa Costa. Treze contos de sobressalto. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 132 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1086-7. $18.00
First published in 1981. The author has published eight other volumes, including three plays (one of which won the Prémio Eça de Queiroz / Teatro do Município de Lisboa) and several works of fiction. O pequeno mundo, a second edition of which was published 1988, won the Prémio Dom Dinis da Fundação da Casa de Mateus.


105. HERCULANO [DE CARVALHO E ARAUJO], Alexandre. Eurico o presbítero. Introduction by Carlos Reis. 7th ed. thus. Lisbon: Ulisseia, 2001. Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses, 8. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 204 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972-56-8129-0. $20.00


106. HOMEM, Maria Aurora Carvalho. Para ouvir Albinoni. Ponta Delgada: Editorial Éter, 1995. Mutationes Lunae. Tall 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 132 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: 972-755-032-0. $28.00
Prior to this collection of stories, the author had written three volumes of poetry, two children's books, and another volume of short stories.


107. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Cimbeline. Filomena Campos, illus. Januário Leite, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 4. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 30 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-081-0. $8.00


108. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. A comédia dos erros. Martim Lapa, illus. José Vieira de Lima, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 9. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-085-3. $8.00

109. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Conto de Inverno. Carlota Emauz, illus. José Vieira de Lima, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 8. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 29 pp., (1 l.), illus. ISBN: 972-575-084-5. $8.00


110. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Hamlet, Príncipe da Dinamarca. Jorge Colombo, illus. Helder Moura Perreira, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 5. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 37 p. ISBN: 972-575-078-0. $8.00


111. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. O Mercador de Veneza. Martim Lapa, illus. Manuel João Gomes, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 7. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-083-7. $8.00


112. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Muito barulho para nada. Luís Gaspar, illus. Luís Manuel Gaspar, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1990. Contos de Shakespeare, 12. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-090-X. $8.00


113. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Noite de Reis. Cristina Malaquias, illus. Clara Garcia da Fonseca, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1990. Contos de Shakespeare, 20. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-098-5. $8.00


114. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Otelo. Luís Gaspar, illus. Helder Moura Perreira, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 3. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-080-2. $8.00


115. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. O Rei Lear. Carlota Emauz, illus. Manuel João Gomes, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 10. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 31 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-086-1. $8.00


116. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Romeo e Julieta. Jorge Colombo, illus. Helder Moura Perreira, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 1. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 40 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-077-2. $8.00


117. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Sonho de uma noite de verão. Vera Pinto, illus. Clara Garcia da Fonseca, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 2. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 31 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-081-0. $8.00


118. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. A Tempestade. Teresa Dias Coelho, illus. Luís Manuel Gaspar, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1990. Contos de Shakespeare, 11. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 32 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-089-6. $8.00


119. LAMB, Charles, and Mary Lamb. Tímon de Atenas. Filomena Campos, illus. Manuel João Gomes, trans. Lisbon: Contexto, 1989. Contos de Shakespeare, 6. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 31 pp., illus. ISBN: 972-575-082-9. $8.00


120. LARA FILHO, Ernesto. Crónicas da roda gigante. Porto: Afrontamento, 1990. Colecção Fixões, 19. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 226 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-36-0240-7. $28.00
The author was born in Benguela, 1932 and died in Huambro, 1977. He was a journalist, poet and agricultural engineer, imprisoned by Portuguese authorities for anti-colonial activism.


121. LEAL, Leonilde. As mãos de Vitoriana, contos. Armanda Andrade, illus. Lisbon: Escritor, 1993. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 149, (1) pp., (5 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–9484–35–X. $20.00
The author has published at least four novels, seven volumes of short stories, an imaginary diary, and six volumes of poetry, one of which, Na lassidão do sono, was awarded the Prémio Raul de Carvalho.


122. LIMA, Manuel de (1918–1976). O clube dos antropófagos. Lisbon: Estampa, 1973. Obras de Manuel de Lima, 3. Sm. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 267 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: none. $35.00
First appearance of this title as a novella (ending on p. 115), followed by an "Interfácio" (pp. [117]–134). The second edition of the play by the same title occupies pp. [135]–267. It was first published 1965. An illustration by José de Araújo is on the verso of the half–title. We have one copy in stock. See Laurinda Bom in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 268; Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 681-2.


123. LIMA, Manuel de (1918–1976). Malaquias, ou a história de um homem bàrbaramente agredido. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Estampa, 1972. Obras de Manuel de Lima, 2. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 260 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: none. $35.00
This surrealist novel was first published in 1953. A semi–abstract illustration on the verso of the half–title is not credited. We have one copy in stock.


124. LIMA, Manuel de (1918–1976). A pata do pássaro desenhou uma nova paisagem. Lisbon: Estampa, 1972. Obras de Manuel de Lima, 1. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 152 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: none. $35.00
First and only edition of these short stories. Contains an illustration by João Rodrigues on the verso of the half–title. We have one copy in stock.


125. LLANSOL, Maria Gabriela. Ardente texto Joshua. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1998. Ficção Portuguesa, 47. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 147 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–708–500–8. $25.00


126. LLANSOL, Maria Gabriela. O raio sobre o lápis. Julião Sarmento, illus. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 2004. 12°, orig. prtd. wrps. 71 pp., (4 ll.), illus. (some illus. in color). ISBN: 972-37-0973-2. $20.00
First published 1991. For a brief notice of this prize-winning author, see Maria Nazaré Gomes dos Santos in Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 272–4.


127. LOBO, Domingos. Território inimigo, contos. Chamusca: Cosmos, 2009. Colecção Nova Biblioteca Cosmos / Ficção Portuguesa, 2. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 133 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 978-972-762-328-0. $35.00
The author has written three previous works of fiction, one of which, Os navios negreiros não sobem o Cuando (1993), was awarded the Prémio Literário Cidade de Torres Vedras. He has also had published three volumes of poetry, and has written three plays.


128. LOBO, Vasco Rodrigo. À flor da pele. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1987. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 160 pp. ISBN: none. $20.00
Novella.


129. MACEDO, António de. A sonata de cristal. Lisbon: Caminho, 1996. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 228 pp., (4 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972–21–1079–9. $28.00
The author has previously had published a serious novel, a work of science fiction, a book of short stories, three plays, essays on the history of esthetics in film, and an essay on liberation.


130. MACEDO, Helder. Pedro e Paula. Lisbon: Presença, 1998. Grandes Narrativas, 50. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 207 pp. ISBN: 972–23–2272–9. $23.00
Multidimensional novel set in Portugal and Africa during the past half century. Helder Macedo (b. Krugersdorp, South Africa, 1935), literary critic and poet, held the Camões chair at King's College, University of London, once occupied by Edgar Prestage and Charles Boxer. He was co–founder of Folhas de poesia (1957–1959). In addition to several volumes of poetry and numerous literary essays, he has one previous novel to his credit, Partes de África (1991), based on experiences growing up in Moçambique.


131. MACHADO, David. O fabuloso Teatro do Gigante. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2006. Grandes Narrativas, 330. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 212 pp., (2 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-23-3624-X. $30.00
This short novel is the author's first work of longer adult fiction. He has previously written for children; his A noite dos animais inventados was awarded the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca 2005 by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and the weekly Expresso. He has won other literary prizes; his short story, O fantástico verão do Café Lanterna was published by Coolbooks in 2004.


132. mãe, valter hugo. O nosso reino. 2nd ed. Matosinhos: Quidnovi, 2009. Quidnovi Literatura Portuguesa. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 150 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 978-989-628-135-9. $40.00
First published 2004. Born in Henrique de Carvalho, Angola in 1971, the author was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Poesia Almeida Garrett for 1999, by the Associação dos Jornalistas e Homens de Letras do Porto for his book egon schiele auto-retrato de dupla encarnação. He was also awarded the Prémio José Saramago, 2007, by the Fundação Círculo de Leitores, for his novella O remorso de baltazar serapião (2007). A dramatist and contributor to various literary reviews, he worked at the Centro de Estudos Regianos. He has published at least 9 volumes of poetry, and edited several important anthologies. Along with Jorge Reis-Sá, he has been responsible for Quasi Edições. This was valter hugo mãe's first book of fiction, billed on the publisher's "belt" of the original edition as "uma revelação no romance português". It was selected by the Diário de notícias as one of the best Portuguese "romances" of 2004.


133. MALHEIRO, Helena. O tamanho do mundo. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2004. Contos. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 187 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-555-041-3. $25.00
This collection of fifteen stories was first published 1996. The author was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Ensaio by the Secretária de Estado da Cultura and by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores, 1980, for her Os amantes, ou a arte da novela em David Mourão-Ferreira. She has also written another volume of literary criticism about David Mourão Ferreira, a novel, and two collections of short stories.


134. MANGAS, Francisco Duarte. Ladrão de violetas. Lisbon: Teorema, 1995. Colecção Estórias. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 90 pp., (1 l. advt.). Small dampstain in lower outer corner of first and last few leaves. ISBN: 972-695-243-3. $16.00
The author's first work of fiction was the novella Diário de Link, originally published in 1993. It won the Prémio Carlos de Oliveira. Born in Rossas, Vieira do Minho, 1960, Mangas has worked as a journalist for the Diário de Notícias, and has published a number of other books, including several volumes of poetry. His novel Geografia do medo (1997) was awarded the Prémio Eixo Atlântico de Narrativa Galaico–Portuguesa.


135. MARCHI, Carlos. O enforcado de Macabu: o maior erro da justiça brasileira. Preface by Evandro Lins e Silva. Lisbon: Tribuna da História, 2009. Colecção Romance Histórico. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 271 pp., footnotes. ISBN: 978-972-8219-10-7. $40.00
First published in Rio de Janeiro, 1998 with the title Fera de Macabu: História e o romance de um condenado à Morte. There is also a Rio de Janeiro 1999 edition. The plot concerns what is widely considered the greatest instance of judicial error to occur in nineteenth-century Brazil. The planter Manoel da Motta Coqueiro (1802?-1855) from Macaé, in the North of Rio de Janeiro province, was condemned to death and hanged for a murder he did not commit. It was then discovered that he had been framed by political opponents. The Emperor D. Pedro II had refused to grant clemency; afterwards he was so affected by the obvious defects in the justice system that he henceforth would not allow further executions, effectively ending capital punishment in Brazil.


136. MELO, Guilherme de. Como um rio sem pontes, romance. Lisbon: Editorial Notícias, 1992. Obras de Guilherme de Melo. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 171 pp. ISBN: none. $20.00
Novel dealing with drug addiction and AIDS.


137. MELO, João de. O homem suspenso. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1996. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 218 pp. ISBN: 972–20–1355–6. $28.00
The author was born on the island of São Miguel in the Azores (1949). He took part in the Glacial literary movement in Angra between 1969 and 1973. His novel Gente feliz com lágrimas won the most important literary prizes for the year 1989. As of the time this book appeared, the author had published at least 17 volumes, including 4 other novels, 5 collections of stories, 1 volume of poetry, and 3 of essays.


138. MELO, [José] Dias de. Pena dela saudades de mim. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1994. Colecção Garajau, 18. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-689-063-2. $20.00
The author of these short stories, a native of the freguesia da Calheta de Nesquim, Ilha do Pico, has published at least 25 books, including poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as several novels.


139. MENANO, António Augusto. Inominável segredo. Macau: Livros do Oriente, 1993. Entendimentos. 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 141, (2) pp. ISBN: 972-9418-12-8. $25.00
Action–mystery novel set in modern Macau, in which "o passado é desvendade num subtil jogo de espelhos."


140. MENDILUCE, José Maria. O mistério da Ilha de Luanda. Translated from the Spanish by Rita Assis Santos. Preface by José Eduardo Agualusa. Cacém: Texto Editora, 2002. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-47-2203-1. $16.00


141. MENDONÇA, António Pedro Lopes de. Memórias de um doido: edição crítica, comparativa das 1º e 2º edições (1849 e 1859). Estudo e notas de José Augusto França. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 1982. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 333 pp, (4 ll.). ISBN: none. $35.00
Out-of-print. We have one copy in stock.


142. MENESES, João Paulo. E depois do adeus. Lisbon: Difusão Cultural, 1996. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 103 pp. ISBN: 972-70-9278-0. $20.00
Novella about the Portuguese presence in Macau, and about the profession of journalism, dealing with a woman born in Canton, but with a Portuguese passport, who has been condemned to death. She claims to be innocent. Six days are left before Macau is to be turned over to China. A Portuguese journalist is determined to save her. The author, born in Lisbon, 1966, grew up in Vila do Conde. A journalist who worked for Comércio do Porto and Capital between 1991 and 1993, in 1993 he "emigrated" to Macau, working for Portuguese radio.


143. MIRANDA, Manuel Ricardo. Ginga, Rainha de Angola. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2008. Colecção Romance. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 249 pp., (3 ll.), chronology, bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-555-382-2. $45.00
Historical novel based on the life of Nzinga Mbandi Ngola, later known by the Portuguese as Ginga [of Jinga], perhaps the most powerful African woman of her time. The author was born in Cascais in 1943. He did his military service in Angola, and lived there during the 1960s and 1970s. This is his first book.


144. MIRANDA, Miguel. Dois urubus pregados no céu. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2002. Campo da Literatura, 75. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 237 pp. ISBN: 972-610-509-9. $28.00
The author of this novel, a physician, was born in Porto, 1956. His novel, O complexo de sotavento appeared in 1992, while his Contos à moda do Porto (1995), were awarded the Grande Prémio do Conto "Camilo Castelo Branco" A.P.E. / C.M. de Vila Nova de Familicão. Another novel, Bailado de sombras (1997), set partially in Cuba, was termed by its publisher "um tríptico sobre o amor". O estranho caso do cadáver sorridente (1998), won the Prémio Caminho de Literatura Policial, 1997. A maldição do louva-a-Deus appeared in 2001. He also wrote a collection of stories, A mulher que usava o gato enrolado ao pescoço (1999).


145. MOURA, Vasco Graça. Naufrágio de Sepúlveda, romance. Lisbon: Quetzal, 1988. Tall 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 171, (1) pp. ISBN: none. $20.00
On the politician, author of a vast and diverse literary output, and cultural bureaucrat Vasco [Navarro de] Graça Moura, born Porto, 1942, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 327; also Fernando Pinto do Amaral in Biblos, III, 977-9.


146. MOURA, Vasco Graça. Partida de Sofonisba às seis e doze da manhã, romance. Lisbon: Quetzal, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 265 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-564-174-4. $28.00


147. MOURA, Vasco Graça. Quatro últimas canções, romance. Lisbon: Quetzal, 1987. Tall 12°, orig. illus. wrps. 177, (1) pp. ISBN: none. $22.00


148. MURALE, Joaquim. Dou este mar por um céu de andorinhas, romance. Lisbon: Escritor, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 188 pp., (5 ll.). ISBN: 972-8590-52-0. $30.00
The author's first novel. Born in Estremoz, 1953, he has had published two volumes of poetry and two of plays.


149. NAVARRO, António [Augusto] Rebordão [e Cunha]. A praça de Liège. 2nd ed. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1996. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 245 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0958-6. $25.00
Second part of a trilogy, first published 1988; this novel was awarded the Prémio Literário Círculo de Leitores. The author's Romance com o teu nome (2004) was awarded the Prémio Florbela Espanca (2003) by the Câmara Municipal de Vila Viçosa. On this author of at least 10 volumes of poetry, 12 novels, a book of short stories, several other volumes of prose, 2 volumes of plays, and editor of an anthology of poetry by Jorge de Lima, born Porto, 1933, see Fernando Guimarães in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 335-6. The first part of the trilogy, Mesopotâmia (1985) was awarded the Prémio Internacional Miguel Torga. Parábola do passeio alegre (1995), was the third part. Rebordão Navarro has been awarded several other literary prizes. See also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, VI, 201-3.


150. NAVARRO, Modesto. O emblema leonino. Lisbon: Teorema, 1996. Estórias, 85. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 111 pp. ISBN: 972–695–257–3. $14.00
Crime novella by a prize–winning author in this genre. The author has published at least 30 volumes, including novels, short stories, and poems. Three detective novels were published under the pseudonym "Artur Cortez".


151. NEVES, Abel. Sentimental. Porto: Asa, 1999. Finisterra: Autores Contemporâneos de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 223, (1) pp. ISBN: 972-41-2013-9. $30.00
Novel about Matias, an antiques dealer in one of the historic zones of Lisbon, and Christa, a young journalist who visits his shop on the way to the Sé Cathedral. She is about the age of his daughter. He falls in love. Born in Montalegre in 1956, the author has published a number of volumes of plays, as well as a volume of poetry. This is his third novel.


152. NEVES, Joaquim Pacheco. Contos do amanhã. Vila do Conde: Câmara Municipal, 1996. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 156 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-9453-30-6. $28.00


153. NEVES, Orlando. Histórias de espanto e exemplo: contos da diáspora. Macau: Livros do Oriente, 1993. Autores Portugueses. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 140 pp., (1 blank, 1 l.), 10 full–page illus. (8 in color). ISBN: 972-9418-16-0. $20.00
This author has had 35 volumes of his work published, including 14 books of poetry, 6 tomes of fiction, 2 of theater, 7 children's books, 3 chronicles of recent history, 2 historical works and a dictionary of idioms.


154. NOGUEIRA, Paulo. O último dia do mundo. Lisbon: Pergaminho, 1997. Colecção Prosa 21, 4. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 228 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972–711–102–5. $22.00
The author, born in Brazil, has lived in Portugal since circa 1987. He has worked as a journalist in Portugal for O jornal, Jornal de letras, O Estado de São Paulo, A capital, Expresso, and O independente; as well as for reviews such as Ler, Oceanos, and Elle. He has published at least two other novels and a collection of essays.


155. NORTON, Cristina. O afinador de pianos. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. Talvez Ler, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 209, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04322–2. $35.00
FIRST EDITION—we have 1 copy in stock. The author, a native of Buenos Aires (b. 1948), began in 1961 to publish stories and poetry in the literary supplements of various Lisbon journals. Later she settled in Portugal, studying the fine arts and art history. This is her first novel, about a piano tuner from Madrid whose profession takes him to Galicia at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, on to the Lisbon of Salazar, and later to the Buenos Aires of Juan Perón and Evita.


156. NUNES, Rui. Álbum de retratos. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1993. Ficção Portuguesa, 22. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 169 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-708-213-0. $25.00
The author's Osculatriz (1992) was awarded the Prémio ex aequo in fiction by the Pen Club of Portugal, 1992. His novella Grito (1997) was awarded the Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela APE, 1997. See Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 344.


157. NUNES, Rui. O mensageiro diferido. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 2004. Ficção Portuguesa, 73. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 100 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l., 2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972–708–820–1. $25.00
First published 1981 by Regra do Jogo.


158. OLIVEIRA, Álamo. Até hoje (memórias de cão). Angra do Heroísmo: Signo, 1988. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 173 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: none. $35.00
FIRST EDITION, second issue? Out-of-print. We have one copy in stock. This novel was awarded the Prémio "Maré viva" (ficção narrativa), 1985 by the Câmara Municipal do Seixal. A note on the verso of the half–title states "Esta não é segunda edição deste livro. É apenas outra, que surge em sequência da rescisão unilateral de um contrato cujo clausulado não foi comprido pela primeira editora." This Azorean author has published at least 14 volumes of verse (beginning in 1968), 3 of plays, 4 of essays, 2 collections of short stories, and at least 4 other novels or novellas. Several of his writings have gone through more than one edition.


159. OLIVEIRA, Álamo. Até hoje: memórias de cão. 2nd ed. Lisboa: Salamandra, 2003. Colecção Garajau, 103. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 204 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-689-228-7. $25.00


160. OLIVEIRA, Álamo. Burra preta com uma lágrima. 2nd ed., revised. Lisbon: Salamandra, 1995. Colecção Garajau, 27. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 163 pp. ISBN: 972–689–082–9. $20.00


161. OLIVEIRA, Francisco da Costa. Alto risco. Lisbon: Oficina do Livro, 2005. Colecção Ficção. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 206 pp. ISBN: 989-555-128-2. $25.00
A jealous husband follows his wife's lover to Puerto Rico; a poor nobleman marries a rich widow and disputes her inheritance with her daughter; a man whose career had been destroyed is reborn as a "golpista"; a psychiatrist with a personality disorder tries to murder the new boyfriend of his former girlfriend; a businessman formerly a police officer, becomes involved in his first illegal business deal. All this is "high risk". The author was born in Lisbon, 1969. He has practiced law, and published a number of juridical volumes. This brief novel, or novella, appears to be his first book of fiction.


162. PAIS, Manuel. Prazer para adultos sem tempo. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. Talvez Ler, 9. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 198, (1) pp., (1 p. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04315–X. $22.00


163. PEPETELA, pseud. [i.e. Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos]. Yaka. 4th ed. Preface by António Callado. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 397 pp. ISBN: 972-20-1011-5. $35.00
First published 1985. The Angolan–born author was awarded the Prémio Camões, described by the publisher as "the most important literary prize in the Portuguese language," for the totality of his literary output. "Pepetela" has also written Mayombe (1980—5 editions); O cão e os Calundas (1985—4 editions); Lueiji, o nascimento dum império (1990—3 editions); A geração da Utopia (1992—3 editions); and O desejo de Kianda (1995—4 editions). All were published by Dom Quixote.


164. PESSANHA, Camilo. Contos, crónicas, cartas escolhidas e textos de temática chinesa. Introdução biográfica e crítica, organização e notas de António Quadros. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1988. Obras de Camilo Pessanha, II. Livros de Bolso Europa-América, 503. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 197, (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: none. $22.00


165. [PESSOA, Fernando.] Álvaro de Campos, pseud. Notas para a recordação do meu mestre Caeiro. Textos fixados, organizados e apresentados por Teresa Rita Lopes. Lisbon: Estampa, 1997. Ficções, 28. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 96 pp. (including the final p. advt.). ISBN: 972–33–1286–7. $16.00


166. PINTO, Alberto Oliveira. Eu à sombra da figueira da Índia. Porto: Afrontamento, 1990. Colecção Fixões, 27 (according to the title page verso; spine and back cover say 26). 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 105 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-36-0253-9. $20.00
The author was born in Luanda, 1962, but has lived in Lisbon since an early age.


167. PINTO, Alberto Oliveira. O saco dos livros. Porto: Afrontamento, 1991. Colecção Fixões, 31. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 117 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-36-0261-X. $22.00
Grande Prémio de Ficção, Azul Gresso Cor da Vida; honorable mention for the Prémio de Ficção em Prosa do Concurso Literatura e Desenvolvimento, 1990.


168. PINTO, Pedro. O último bandeirante, romance. 4th ed. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2009. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 295 pp., color illus., map, bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-626-154-2. $35.00
First published in March 2009, this fourth edition is said to have appeared in June. Pedro Pinto has been a journalist since 1997, and has worked for TVI since 2000 as a presenter of the "Jornal Nacional". He has also taught Journalism and Economics at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa since 1996. This novel set in seventeenth-century South America is his first book.


169. PINTO, Ricardo. Os escolhidos. Livro I: A dança de pedra do camaleão. Translated from the English by Maria Geogina Segurado. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2003. Via Láctea, 5. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 564 pp., (1 l. adv.), illus. ISBN: 972-23-3006-3. $33.00
This is the first volume of a trilogy described by the publisher as a "saga magistral"; it is the author's first novel, originally published by Bantam Press, 1999. The author is a native of Lisbon (b. 1961). His family emigrated to the United Kingdom, settling in Dundee, Scotland; at the time this volume appeared he was living in Edinburgh.


170. PIRES, Jacinto Lucas. Para averiguar do seu grau de pureza: treze prosas com janelas. Lisbon: Cotovia, 1996. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 75 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-8028-89-6. $18.00
The author was born in Porto, 1974. This book contains very short stories. His other work includes a volume with three pieces of short fiction and two screenplays, 2 Filmes e Algo de Algodão (1999); a play, Universos e frigoríficos (1997); and a novella, Azul–turquesa, which first appeared in June 1998; a second edition came out the following month.


171. PIRES, Luís Costa. Ao teu lado. Lisbon: Vega, 2008. Colecção O Chão da Palavra—Nova Série. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 114 pp. ISBN: 978-972-699-904-1. $30.00


172. POMBO, Fátima. O desenhador. Lisbon: Teorema, 2003. Colecção Estórias, 149. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 192 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-695-529-7. $25.00
Awarded the Prémio FNAC / Teorema, 2002. The author has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Aveiro (1995). She has written three books on music history. This short novel, or novella, is her first work of fiction.


173. PRATA, Mário. James Lins: o playboy que não deu certo. Lisbon: Palavra, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps., edges tinted yellow. 191 pp. ISBN: 972-41-4199-3. $28.00
First published Rio de Janeiro, 1994.


174. QUEIROZ, José Maria de Eça de. Contos I. Edição de Marie-Hélène Piwnik. Preface by Carlos Reis (series editor). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2009. Edição Crítica das Obras de Eça de Queirós. Ficção, Não-póstumos. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 405 pp., (1 l. colophon). ISBN: 978-972–27–1618–5. $75.00
Piwnik's heavily annotated introduction occupies pp. [15]-32. Twenty-three short stories are presented here in their critical texts.


175. QUERALT DEL HIERRO, María Pilar. Inês de Castro. 2nd ed. in Portuguese. Saul Barata, trans. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2003. Grandes Narrativas, 219. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 147 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972–23–3081–0. $18.00
The first edition in Portuguese appeared in September of 2003; this second edition was published later the same month.


176. RAMOS, Manuel Silva, and "Alface" [i.e. João Alfacinha da Silva]. As noites brancas do papa negro, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Fenda, 1996. Títulos do Tesouro. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 101 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–9184–44–5. $16.00
Second part of the "Tuga" trilogy, first published in 1982.


177. REAL, Miguel. O último negreiro. Matosinhos: Quidnovi, 2006. Colecção Literatura Portuguesa. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 398 pp., 8 ll. illus., more than half in color, printed on both sides, bibliography. ISBN: 972-8998-39-2. $40.00
This historical novel tells the story of Francisco Felix de Sousa, called the greatest Portuguese slave trader, who lived in Bahia and Benim from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, building an empire of land, ships, and men. Father of more than 100 offspring, Sousa continued to trade in slaves even after the slave trade was abolished. Migel Real's historical novel A voz da terra (2005; 2nd ed. 2005), awarded the prémio Fernando Namora, 2006, was about the Marquês de Pombal and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The author's novel A visão de Túndalo por Eça de Queirós (2000) was awarded the Prémio Literário Ler by the Fundação Círculo de Leitores. He was previously awarded the Prémio de Revelação APE / IPLB, Ensaio Literário / 1995. Born in Lisbon in 1953, Miguel Real has published a number of works of literary history and criticism, as well as secondary school literary manuals, and a novel in which Plato, near death, confesses to having invented Socrates, using an honored old slave as his model. He has written for the theater in collaboration with Filomena Oliveira. He also wrote Memórias de Branca Dias (2003), a novel based on the legendary Branca Dias, a matriarch of sixteenth-century Pernambuco, one of the first female plantation owners in Brazil.


178. REDOL, [António] Alves. Barranco de cegos. Preface by Mário Dionísio. Illus. by Jorge Pinheiro. Lisbon: Avante!, 1982. Very lge. 8º, orig. plain wrps. with d.j. (d.j. with slight wear). 414 pp., (2 ll.), 14 plates, additional illus. in text. ISBN: none.. $40.00
First published 1961. The preface (pp. [5]-13), is dated 1964. The illustrations appear to be original to the present edition. The action in this novel takes place during a week in May, 1891. Alves Redol (1911-1969) was the first neo-realist novelist to achieve wide recognition in Portugal. He also wrote drama, short stories and ethnographical studies. See Saraiva & Lopes História da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.) pp. 1083, 1084, 1092, 1162.


179. REDOL, [António] Alves. Gaibéus, romance. 17th ed. Preface by Óscar Lopes. Lisbon: Caminho, 1989. Obras Completas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 310 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-21-0459-4. $15.00
The first edition of Gaibéus appeared in 1940; in edition to at least twenty editions in Portuguese, the work was translated into Czech, Bulgarian and Russian. The significant preface by Óscar Lopes (pp. 7-27) first appeared in the present edition, which marked the 50th anniverary of the initial publication.


180. REDOL, [António] Alves. O muro branco, romance. 4th ed. Preface by Maria Lúcia Lepecki. Lisbon: Caminho, 1992. Obras Completas, 16. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 337 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0723-2. $35.00
First published 1966. The preface (pp. 7-14), dated 1991, is original to the present edition.


181. REDOL, [António] Alves. Nasci com passaporte de turista e outros contos. 2nd ed.; 1st thus. Organização e prefácio de José Manuel Mendes. Lisbon: Caminho, 1991. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 223 pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0579-5. $25.00
First published 1940 with the title Nasci com passaporte de turista, contos, with only 127 (1) pp. The preface (pp. 7-11), is original to the present edition.


182. REDOL, [António] Alves. Olhos de água, romance. 5th ed. [i.e. at least the 6th ed.] Lisbon: Caminho, 1993. Obras Completas, 11. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 301 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0827-1. $30.00
First published 1954.


183. RIBEIRO, Aquilino (1885-1963). A Casa Grande de Romarigães, crónica romanceada. João Abel Manta, illus. Lisbon: Bertrand Editora, 2007. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 289 pp., illus. ISBN: 978-972-25-1629-7. $35.00
Novel set in Baixo Minho. One of the author’s best works.. On the major novelist Aquilino [Gomes] Ribeiro, considered by some the best Portuguese prose writer of the twentieth century, see Óscar Lopes in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 415-6; Urbano Tavares Rodrigues in Biblos, IV, 776-81; and Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, III, 320-4.


184. RIBEIRO, Bernardim (between 1482 and 1490?-1536?). Menina e moça, ou saudades. Juan M. Carrasco González, ed. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2008. Biblioteca Lusitana. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 376 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l. colophon), heavily annotated, bibliography, glossary. ISBN: 978-972-8827-46-5. $38.00
The editor provides valuable introductory material (pp. 11-87), as well as critical apparatus. On Bernardim Ribeiro and this classic work see Bell, Portuguese literature, pp. 132-7, et passim; Saraiva & Lopes, Historia da literatura portuguesa (16th ed.), pp. 229-46, et passim; Helder Macedo in Machado, ed., Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 417-9; and José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes in Biblos, IV, 781-7.


185. ROCHA, Vítor da. Na andadura do tempo. Porto: Campo das Letras, 1997. Campo de Estreia, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 191 pp. ISBN: 972–610–050–X. $18.00
Author's first novel.


186. RUAS, Joana. O claro vento do mar. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1996. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 410 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-25-0960-8. $36.00
The author has written several works of fiction, as well as journalistic accounts of events in Guiné during and just after independence. Her novel A pele dos séculos (2001) was set in Portuguese Guiné during the struggle for independence. Another, Corpo colonial (1981), received honorable mention by a Jury of the APE. She has also contributed poetry and prose to a variety of reviews, newspapers, literary supplements, and other periodicals.


187. RUI, Manuel. Rioseco. Lisbon: Cotovia, 1997. Livros Cotovia. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 532 pp., (1 blank l., 1 l.). ISBN: 972–8028–89–X. $38.00
The author of this novel was born in Huambo, Angola (1941). He studied law in Portugal, and practiced the legal profession there. Following the independence of Angola, he entered the cultural life of his country. Professor of literature, journalist, participant in radio and cinema, his prose and poetry have been translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Swedish, Finnish, Arabic and Hebrew. His works include Regresso adiado, Crónica de um Mujinbo, 1 Morto & os vivos, and Da palma da mão; his best known work is Quem me dera ser onda, with a total of 100,000 copies sold worldwide; it was even published in a bilingual Portuguese-Umbundu edition.


188. SÁ, Daniel de. Um deus à beira da loucura. Angra do Heroísmo: SREC / DRAC, 1990. Colecção Gaivota, 69. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 61 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972-647-002-1. $15.00
Winner of the Prémio Nunes da Rosa (conto), Concurso Literário dos Açores, 1990.


189. SÁ–CARNEIRO, Mário de. Céu em fogo: oito novelas. Prefácio e edição de Maria Antónia Oliveira. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1998. Obras Escolhidas. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 291 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–708–512–1. $29.00
First published 1915.


190. SALDANHA, Ana. Círculo imperfeito. Lisbon: Presença, 1995. Novos Continentes, 62. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142 pp. ISBN: 972-23-1884-5. $20.00
This first novel won the Prémio Literário Cidade de Almada, 1994. Widely considered one of the best Portuguese writers for younger readers, she has a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow; her thesis was about the children's books of Rudyard Kipling.


191. SALEMA, Teresa, pseud. (i.e Teresa Maria Loureiro Rodrigues Cadete). Benamonte. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. Contemporânea, 1. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 158 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–1–04366–4. $23.00


192. SALEMA, Teresa, pseud. (i.e Teresa Maria Loureiro Rodrigues Cadete). Educação e memórias de André Maria S.: tríptico. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1982. Colecção Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 217 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: none. $20.00
This novel was awarded the Prémio de Ficção, 1981, for an original work in the Portuguese language, by the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. It was translated into German and published in Germany in 1990. See Álvaro Manuel Machado in Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, p. 431.


193. SALEMA, Teresa, pseud. (i.e Teresa Maria Loureiro Rodrigues Cadete). O lugar ausente. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1991. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 158 pp. ISBN: 972-20-0840-4. $18.00
Novel, or novella, in diary form.


194. SANTOS, Arnaldo [Moreira dos]. A boneca de Quilengues. Porto: Asa, 1992. Colecção Finisterra [Autores Contemporâneos de Língua Portuguesa], Série Africana [Directed by Luandino Vieira]. 8°, publ. bds. with d.j. 142 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-41-1081-8. $30.00
The author was born in Ingombota, one of the old "bairros" of Luanda, in 1935. He has published at least three volumes of poetry, five of short stories, this novella, and two novels. A volume of essays, Tempo de Manhungo, was awarded the Prémio Mota Veiga in 1968, and he was was awarded the Prémio Nacional de Cultura e Artes for 2004. Arnaldo Santos is represented in various anthologies published in Germany, Algeria, Brazil, England, Italy, Portugal, Kenya, Russia and Sweden. Not in Moser & Ferreira, A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literatures of Africa, but see 76, 79, 80, 86, 91, 94, 109, 111, 129, 133, 141, 152, (178), 200, 216, 230, 242, 258, 276, 279, 293, 1306-14, 1315, 1526, 1527, 1529, 1533, 1535, 1548, 1549, 1562, 1567, 1598, 1630, 1647, 1696, 1712, 1715, 1718, 1727, and 1731.


195. SANTOS, Fernando Fonseca. Só se foi amanhã. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1992. Ficção Portuguesa, 14. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 265 pp. ISBN: 972-708-159-2. $35.00
The author is a native of Benguela, Angola. His parents were Portuguese. While most recent Portuguese novels about Africa have been war stories, this one deals with a region in the center of Angola as Independence nears. It depicts the mixed feelings of the whites as they try to decide whether to flee or remain, and later as they are drawn into the conflict between the MPLA and UNITA. The narrative is also full of the Umbundu culture.


196. SARAMAGO, José. Ensaio sobre a lucidez, romance. 2nd ed. Lisbon: Caminho, 2004. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 329 pp. ISBN: 972-21-1608-8. $30.00
The publisher's "belt" claims that 130,000 copies have been printed (i.e. 30,000 copies of the second edition, which appeared in May 2004, and 100,000 of the first edition, which came out earlier the same year).


197. SARAMAGO, José. O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, romance. 25th edition. Lisbon: Caminho, 2000. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. 445 pp. ISBN: 972–21–0524–8. $28.00
First published 1991.


198. SARAMAGO, José. As intermitências da morte, romance. Lisbon: Caminho, 2005. Colecção O Campo da Palavra. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 214 pp. ISBN: 972–21–1738–6. $25.00


199. SILVA, João Botelho da. Beduínos a gasóleo. Lisbon: Caminho, 1993. Ficção Científica, 163. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 278 pp., (1 l. advt.). ISBN: 972-21-0874-3. $25.00
Prémio Caminho de Ficção Científica, 1993.


200. SILVA, José Marmelo e (Paul, Serra da Estrela, 1911-Espinho, 1991). Sedução. 7th ed. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007. Campo da Literatura, 157. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 158 pp. ISBN: 978-989-625-233-5. $30.00
This novella was first published 1938. On the author, who has written a number of significant novels and novellas, a contributor to O diabo, Presença, and Seara nova, see Machado, Dicionário de literatura portuguesa, pp. 454-5; Ernesto Rodrigues in Biblos, V, 42-3; also Dicionário cronológico de autores portugueses, IV, 479-81.


201. SOUSA, [Henrique] Teixeira de. Entre duas bandeiras. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1994. Colecção Século XX, 352. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 195, (1) pp., (2 ll. advt.). ISBN: 972-1-03779-6. $24.00
Historical novel taking place between 25 April 1974 and the official independence of Cabo Verde, 5 July 1975.


202. SOUSA, Luís Amorim de. Crónica dos dias tesos. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1996. A Phala, 10. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 171 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–37–0393–9. $19.00


203. SOUSA, Luís Amorim de. O pico da micaia. Lisbon: Assírio & Alvim, 1997. A Phala, 12. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 189 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–37–0433–1. $21.00


204. SOUSA, Sérgio [Brogueira Alves] de. Dr. Virgolino e as suas amigas, ficção. Lisbon: Escritor, 2004. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 103, (1) pp, (1 l.), x ppl, (5 ll.). ISBN: 972-8590-81-4. $22.00
The author was born in Lisbon, 1947. A lawyer, he has lectured at the Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa. He has written nine previous books, including a novel, three volumes of shorter fiction, a collection of essays, and a treatise on inheritance law.


205. TAVARES, Gonçalo M. O Senhor Walser. Rachel Caiano, illus. Lisbon: Caminho, 2006. Cadernos de Gonçalo M. Tavares, 21. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 38 pp., (4 ll.), illus. ISBN: 972–21–1826–9. $22.00
Born in 1970, the author published his first work, Livro da dança, in 2001. His novel Jerusalem (Círculo de Leitores, 2004; Caminho, 2005) was awarded the Prémio Ler by the Millenium B.C.P. and the Prémio José Saramago for 2005. His Senhor Valéry (2002) was awarded the Prémio Branquinho da Fonseca by the weekly newspaper Expresso and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Investigações, Novalis, poesia (2002) was awarded the Prémio Revelação de Poesia APE / IPLG, 1999. A volume of poems, O homem ou é tonto ou é mulher (2002), was adapted for the stage at the Teatro Aberto during the "encontro do Novíssimo Teatro de Expressão Portuguesa e Alemã" by the Artistas Unidos n’ A Capital. His poetry has appeared in anthologies in Portugal, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as in English and American reviews, while his prose has been translated into Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and French. He has also been published in Brazil.


206. TELLES, Lygia Fagundes. As meninas. Queluz de Baixo: Presença, 2005. Grandes Narrativas, 302. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 243 pp., (2 ll. adv.). ISBN: 972-23-3476-X. $30.00
Originally published in Rio de Janeiro, 1973. This is the first edition to be published in Portugal of this novel by an important Brazilian novelist and short story writer. She was awarded the Prémio Camões in 2005.


207. TOJAL, Altino do. Os mais belos contos de "Os Putos". Porto: Campo das Letras, 1997. Campo da Literatura, 15. 8°, orig. prtd. wrps. with d.j. 176 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972–610–065–8. $25.00
On the author (born Braga, 1939), see Serafim Ferreira in Biblos, V, 445-6.


208. TOJAL, Altino do. Viagem a ver o que dá. 5th ed., revised. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2005. Biblioteca de Autores Portugueses. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 195 pp., (1 l.). One of 800 copies. ISBN: 972–27–1363–9. $26.00


209. TRANCOSO, Gonçalo Fernandes. Contos & histórias de proveito & exemplo. Lisbon: Biblioteca Nacional, 1982. 8º, orig. prtd. wrps. xii p., (1 blank, 2 ll.), 54, (2), 64 ll. ISBN: none. $35.00
Facsimile of the 1575 edition, with introduction by João Palma-Ferreira.


210. VASCONCELOS, Helena. Não há horas para nada. Lisbon: Relógio d'Agua, 1988. Ficção Portuguesa, 12. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 108 pp. ISBN: none. $25.00
This volume of short fiction was awarded the Prémio Inasset de Revelação in fiction by a jury composed of Eduardo Prado Coelho, Eduardo Lourenço, and Vasco Graça Moura. Helena Vasconcelos, a native of Lisbon, spent part of her childhood in Goa, from which she returned in 1967 in order to study at the Faculdade de Letras of the Universidade de Lisboa. She has collaborated in various reviews devoted to fashion and the arts. This appears to be her first book. In 2005 she published a work about Mário Eloy in the series Caminhos da Arte Portuguesa no Século XX.


211. VAZ, Júlio [Guilherme Ferreira] Machado. Muros. 4th ed. Venda Nova: Bertrand, 1995. Colecção Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 362 pp. ISBN: 972-25-0915-2. $45.00
Novel. The author, a psychiatrist born in Porto in 1949, has published fiction, essays, scientific and popular scientific studies: O sexo dos anjos, Domingos, Sábados e outros dias, O fio invisível, Muros, Conversas no papel, Estilhaços, and Estes difíceis amores.


212. VAZ, Júlio [Guilherme Ferreira] Machado. Muros, romance. 8th ed. Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2004. Autores de Língua Portuguesa. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 299 pp. ISBN: 972-20-2654-2. $35.00
The first two editions of this novel were published by Bertrand, 1995.


213. VENDA, António Manuel. Os abençoados fiéis do Senhor Romão. Lisbon: Pergaminho, 1997. Colecção Prosa 21, 3. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 132 pp., (2 ll.). ISBN: 972–711–095–9. $15.00
Awarded the Prémio Literário da Cidade de Almada, 1996.


214. VICENTE, Luís. O filme de Bren. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1997. Talvez Ler, 8. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 142 (1) pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04285–4. $20.00


215. VIEGAS, Francisco José. Um crime na exposição: divertimento. 2nd ed. Porto: Asa, 2002. Asa de Bolso, 24. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 285 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-41-2942-X. $20.00
Detective novel set at Expo '98, Lisbon. First published 1998. The author, a literary critic, television personality, and journalist, was born in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Alto Douro in 1962. He was editor of the review Ler, published by the Círculo de Leitores, and has to his credit at least eight novels, eight volumes of poetry, one volume of plays, and three of travels. Under the pseudonym António Sousa Homem he has published Os ricos andam tolos (crónicas de um reaccionário minhoto). "Francisco José Viegas é o melhor romancista surgido nestes últimos tempos na literatura portuguesa."—Maria Teresa Horta, quoted on the back cover of the dust jacket of his detective novel, Um céu demasiado azul (2000).


216. ZINK, Rui. A realidade agora a cores. Remix. 3rd ed. Mem Martins: Europa-América, 1998. Talvez Ler, 11. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 188 pp., (1 l.), (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972–1–04521–7. $23.00
This collection of stories was first published in 1988. A new copyright, date 1998, would seem to indicate that there have been some revisions or additions; however, this is nowhere confirmed internally, and we have not been able to compare this volume with earlier editions.