7 Best portuguese literature books like A Lua Pode Esperar by Gonçalo Cadilhe

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A Lua Pode Esperar

By: Gonçalo Cadilhe

3.90

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the portuguese literature plot in A Lua Pode Esperar by Gonçalo Cadilhe , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Flores

By: Afonso Cruz

4.04

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Um homem sofre desmesuradamente com as notícias que lê nos jornais, com todas as tragédias humanas … read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
"Cheira tudo a flores, o fim das coisas cheira a flores, não é a esgoto e a podre."

-Afonso Cruz, Flores

"A solidão deve ser a única emoção que não conseguimos partilhar, se o fizermos ela desaparece."

-Afonso Cruz, Flores

"cada homem é um universo, se não fosse não caberia tanto sofrimento dentro da cabeça de cada um."

-Afonso Cruz, Flores

"E disse ainda que, na escola, quando lhe perguntavam onde tinha nascido, respondia apontando para o horizonte."

-Afonso Cruz, Flores

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2. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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3. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

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4. Capitães da Areia

By: Jorge Amado

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Capitães da Areia é o livro de Jorge Amado mais vendido no mundo inteiro. Publicado em 1937, teve … read more

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  • portuguese literature
"Porque a revolução é uma pátria e uma família."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Господь улыбается, как негритенок. («Генералы песчаных карьеров»)"

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Mas já tinham sido desiguais na terra, a balança pendia sempre para um lado."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Que culpa eles têm? Roubam para comer porque todos estes ricos que têm para botar fora, para dar para as igrejas, não se lembram que existem crianças com fome."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

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5. Morreste-me

By: José Luís Peixoto

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Morreste-me, texto que deu a conhecer o jovem escritor Jose Luis Peixoto, e uma obra intensa, avass… read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
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6. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

7. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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8. Baltasar and Blimunda

By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New Yor… read more

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9. Göğü Delen Adam

By: Erich Scheurmann , None , None

3.86

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Papalagi denince beyazlar ya da yabancilar anlasilir. Ama sozcugu sozcugune cevrilirse gogu delen a… read more

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10. Equador

By: Miguel Sousa Tavares

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shippin… read more

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11. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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12. Almoço de Domingo

By: José Luís Peixoto

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Entre 1931 e 2021, a biografia de um homem marcante é paralela à história de Portugal. No Alentejo … read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
"«O passado tem de provar constantemente que existiu. Aquilo que foi esquecido e o que não existiu ocupam o mesmo lugar. Há muita realidade a passear-se por aí, frágil, transportada apenas por uma úni…"

-José Luís Peixoto, Almoço de Domingo

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13. More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the … read more

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14. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more

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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

Cover of Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman

15. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

By: Rutger Bregman

4.22

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"

-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Cover of The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1) by Hisashi Kashiwai

16. The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series f… read more

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"Ah, Setchubai. "Plum Blossoms in the Snow." Perfect, and not just because of the name. It's a little sweet, but it'll go very well with the hotpot."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"We get used to things too easily. You think something's tasty the first time you eat it, but then you start taking it for granted. Never forget your first impressions."

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"It's Swatow lace, I believe-- beautiful, isn't it? The design is titled "The Disc of the Moon"-- apparently it was inspired by the poem "Midnight Song" by the Tang-era poet Li Bai. I looked it up, an…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

"Miyajima oysters, simmered Kurama-style, miso-glazed baked butterburs with millet cake, bracken and bamboo shoot stew, chargrilled moroko, breast of Kyoto-reared chicken with a wasabi dressing, and v…"

-Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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17. Fresh Water for Flowers

By: Valérie Perrin

4.27

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Random visitors, re… read more

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"To be loved is to stay young."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"The day someone loves you, the weather's marvelous."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"Today, what matters for her, for me, is making flowers grow."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

"As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel."

-Valérie Perrin, Fresh Water for Flowers

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18. A Cicatriz

By: Maria Francisca Gama

4.38

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

«Éramos felizes, verdadeiros camaradas e a âncora um do outro. Um dia o nosso barco afundou-se e ne… read more

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  • portugal
  • portuguese literature
Cover of En agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez

19. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

Cover of A Lua Pode Esperar by Gonçalo Cadilhe

20. A Lua Pode Esperar

By: Gonçalo Cadilhe

3.90

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

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  • travel
  • portugal
  • nonfiction
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21. Lisboa árabe

By: Sérgio Luís de Carvalho

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Os árabes… Desde o século VIII que a sua presença se fez sempre sentir entre nós. Primeiro, como co… read more

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Afonso Cruz

4.04

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Death with Interruptions

Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

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Morreste-me

José Luís Peixoto

3.79

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José Luís Peixoto

4.10

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Durian Sukegawa , Alison Watts

3.95

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La asombrosa tienda de la señora Yeom

Kim Ho-yeon

4.04

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DallerGut Dream Department Store

Lee Mi-ye

3.79

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3.87

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