5 Best portugal books like Uma Coisa em Forma de Assim by Alexandre O'Neill

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Uma Coisa em Forma de Assim

By: Alexandre O'Neill

4.13

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

"Na sua escrita leve, clara e irrespeitosa, O'Neill apresenta-nos aqui pequenas ficções, arremedos …

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1. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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2. After Dark

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more

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"With luck, it might even snow for us."

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Is it against the law for me to know it?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"

-Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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3. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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4. Las primas

By: Aurora Venturini

3.91

Format: None pages, pocket

Cuatro mujeres orbitando eternamente en el vacio. La premiadisima primera novela de la octogenaria … read more

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5. Uma Abelha Na Chuva

By: Carlos de Oliveira

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Uma Abelha na Chuvaconta-nos as peripecias de Alvaro Rodrigues Silvestre, sujeito as "instigacoes" … read more

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6. 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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7. O Irmão Alemão

By: Chico Buarque

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sergio Buarque de Holanda morou em Berlim entre 1929 e 1930, como correspondente de O Jornal, orgao… read more

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8. Pornografia

By: Witold Gombrowicz , Alastair Hamilton

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a… read more

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9. Invisible

By: Paul Auster

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

"One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most pass… read more

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10. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

11. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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12. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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13. M Train

By: Patti Smith

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, … read more

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"We sometimes eclipse our own dreams with reality."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures."

-Patti Smith, M Train

"I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works."

-Patti Smith, M Train

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14. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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15. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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16. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

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17. Trilogía

By: Jon Fosse

3.90

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more

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18. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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19. Le parfum des fleurs la nuit

By: Leïla Slimani

3.92

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Comme un écrivain qui pense que « toute audace véritable vient de l’intérieur », Leïla Slimani n’ai… read more

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"Escribir no es expresar una cultura sino desprenderse de ella, si esta se encierra en prohibiciones e imperativos."

-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit

"En mi opinión, ni el discurso que glorifica el mestizaje ni el que se siente amenazado por este han entendido la complejidad de una identidad doble. Es simultáneamente incomodidad y libertad, disgust…"

-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit

"La dominación colonial —he acabado entendiéndolo— moldea no solo las mentes sino también los cuerpos, los constriñe y encierra. El dominado no se atreve a moverse, a rebelarse, a cruzar sus límites… …"

-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit

"Jamás pude descansar en el confort frío de la indiferencia. El transeúnte que pasa por la calle, la panadera que habla en un tono muy alto, el viejecito que camina lentamente, la niñera que sueña sen…"

-Leïla Slimani, Le parfum des fleurs la nuit

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20. The Perfect Nanny

By: Leïla Slimani

3.40

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer… read more

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"The baby is dead."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

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21. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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22. A História de Roma

By: Joana Bértholo

4.04

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Duas pessoas que foram outrora um casal encontram-se passados dez anos de se separarem. Ela, lisboe… read more

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23. 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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24. Eliete

By: Dulce Maria Cardoso

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Novo romance de Dulce Maria Cardoso, sete anos depois do estrondoso sucesso de O Retorno, o livro q… read more

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25. Min far & Kvinnan

By: Annie Ernaux

4.01

Format: 173 pages, Hardcover

Há pouco tempo, compreendi que o romance é impossível. Para revelar uma vida sujeita à necessidade,… read more

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26. Uma Coisa em Forma de Assim

By: Alexandre O'Neill

4.13

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

"Na sua escrita leve, clara e irrespeitosa, O'Neill apresenta-nos aqui pequenas ficções, arremedos … read more

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Édouard Louis

4.13

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3.71

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4.38

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