Product Description: in 1916, just before the russian revolution, Benjamin Kantarovitch, nicknamed "Mousy," has been asked by a sick friend to deliver a message to an agent in Prague. Believing he was undertaking an important mission under direct orders by Leon Trotsky, Mousy has left his shtetl near Odessa and traveled to revolutionary Prague to rendezvous with a secret agent...read more

Product Description: Viajando através do alfabeto: um olhar uses "Dicionario do Viajante Insolito" (the little yellow book) by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar as a point of departure and aims to help students develop reading, oral, and written comprehension of Portuguese, filling a much needed void as a reader or complementary intermediate text...read more

Product Description: Moacyr Scilar, one of today’s most recognized Brazilian authors, delights us with a tale full of fantasy, humor and satire. A long time ago in a far away country lived a woman with no name, no wealth, no friends and no love. She was also the ugliest woman on the face of the earth, but she had the virtue of being the only person who knew how to read and write...read more

Betrayed by his lover's husband, Max Schmidt, the son of a furrier, escapes from the Nazi authorities in his native Germany and boards a ship bound for Brazil, but when the ship sinks, he is stranded in a lifeboat with only a hungry jaguar for company. Reprint.

A centaur, Guedali, recounts his family's flight from Russia to settle in Brazil and describes how an operation changed his life

Product Description: "Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."—New York Times

'Superb volume consists of Scliar's six collections of stories published between 1968-89, three of which have never before been rendered into English. Excellently translated, work conveys in fluent, evocative prose Scliar's enormous success in this difficult form. Stories range from biblical parables, through magical realism, to fantastic and humorous accounts. Concludes with a short autobiographical essay'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

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Focuses on one catastrophic day in the life of businessman Rafael Mendes, weaving together stories of his ancestors and occurrences of the present as Mendes learns how the past informs and shackles the present

Chronicles the imaginative, phantasmagorial adventures of a young woman, Raquel, the daughter of a Brazilian-Jewish parents, a prize convent-school student, and lover of Miguel

Mayer Guinzberg becomes determined to help create a new society where everyone is equal and decides to start a collective farm

Twenty-three brief stories describe a plan for extinction, hungry bears, a shipwrecked cow, a tiny dog, an aging superhero, a fishing contest, a gunfighter, and anonymous phone calls