Set in the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the Fascist shadow of Spain, PEREIRA MAINTAINS tells a tale of reluctant heroism. Dr. Peirera, an editor at a second-rate Lisbon newspaper, wants nothing to do with European politics. He's happy to translate 19th-century French stories. His closest confidante is a photograph of his late wife. All this changes when he meets Francesco Monteiro Rossi, an oddly charismatic young man. Pereira gives Rossi work, and continues to pay him, even after discovering that he is using the money to recruit for the anti-Franco International Brigade. PEREIRA MAINTAINS chronicles Pereira's ascent to consciousness, culminating in a devastating and reckless act of rebellion.

Lisboa, 1938. Bajo la opresiva dictadura de Salazar, el furor de la guerra civil espanola llamando a la puerta y el fascismo italiano de fondo, Pereira, un periodista dedicado a la seccion de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la pagina cultural de un mediocre periodico. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con Monteiro Rossi, joven inequivocamente comprometido con la vida. La intensa relacion que se establece entre el viejo periodista, Monteiro y su novia Marta, cristalizara en una crisis personal, una maduracion interior y una dolorosa toma de conciencia que transformara profundamente la vida de Pereira.

Pereira Maintains

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, an international bestseller, is an extraordinary novel that transports listeners into the universe of Jewish Kabbalah during the Lisbon massacre of April 1506. Just a few years earlier, Jews living in Portugal were dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity. Many of these New Christians persevered in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk; the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews, continued as well.

One such secret Jew was Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches, in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist and manuscript illuminator, discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue along with a young girl in dishabille. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes by turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks.

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1)

"Alentejo Blue" is the story of a village community in Portugal, told through the lives of men and women whose families have lived there for generations and some who are passing through. For Teresa, a beautiful girl not yet twenty, Mamarrosa is a place from which to escape. For the dysfunctional Potts family, it is a way of running from trouble (though not eluding it). Vasco, a cafe owner who has never recovered from the death of his American wife, clings to a notion that his years away from the village, in the States, make him superior. One English tourist fantasizes about making a new life in Mamarrosa; for her compatriots, a young engaged couple, Mamarrosa is where their dreams fall apart. At the opening of "Alentejo Blue," an old man reflects on his long and troubled life in this seemingly tranquil place, and anticipates the homecoming of Marco Afonso Rodrigues, the prodigal son of the village and a symbol of the now fast-changing world. When Marco does finally return, villagers, tourists, and expatriates are brought together, and their jealousies and disappointments inevitably collide.

Alentejo Blue

When José Saramago decided to write a book about Portugal some twenty years ago, his only desire was that it be unlike all other books on the subject, and in this he certainly has succeeded. Recording the events and observations of a journey across the length and breadth of the country that he loves dearly, this travelogue brings Portugal to life as only a writer of Saramago's brilliance can. Forfeiting sources of information such as tourist guides and road maps, he scours the country with the eyes and ears of an observer fascinated by the ancient myths and history of his people. Whether an inaccessible medieval fortress set on a cliff, a wayside chapel thick with cobwebs, or a grand mansion in the city, the extraordinary places of this land come alive with the kings, warriors, painters, explorers, writers, saints, and sinners who have fed its rich store of myth and history. Always meticulously attentive to those elements of ancient Portugal that persist today, he examines the country in its current period of rapid transition and growth.

Infused with the tenderness and intelligence that have become familiar to his readers, Saramago's "Journey to Portugal" is an ode of love for a country and its rich traditions.

About the Author
José Saramago was born in Portugal in 1922. His work includes plays, poetry, short stories, nonfiction, and seven novels, including "Baltasar and Blimunda" and "The History of the Seige of Lisbon". In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Amanda Hopkinson translates contemporary literature, mainly from Latin America, and reviews for leading British newspapers.

Nick Caistor, journalist and producer of BBC programs, has translated the work of several authors including Eduardo Mendoza and Juan Carlos Onetti.

Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with strange visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is condemned and sent into exile, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolemeu Lourenço, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the inquisition rages and royalty and religion clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.

Baltasar and Blimunda

In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that—if he can find it—would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe’s earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure.

Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás’s quest.

Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion.

The High Mountains of Portugal—part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable—offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century—and through the human soul.

The High Mountains of Portugal

A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.

Night Train to Lisbon

Winner of the prestigious Gold Dagger Award in the U.K. for the best mystery of 1999, this complex literary thriller may be one of the most satisfying suspense novels to come along in some time. Robert Wilson has written several political thrillers, most of which are set in West Africa, but they are, alas, largely unavailable in the U.S.

In A Small Death in Lisbon, the narrative switches back and forth between 1941 and 1999, and Wilson's wide knowledge of history and keen sense of place make the eras equally vibrant. In 1941 Germany, Klaus Felsen, an industrialist, is approached by the SS high command in a none-too-friendly manner and is "persuaded" to go to Lisbon and oversee the sale--or smuggling--of wolfram (also known as tungsten, used in the manufacture of tanks and airplanes). World War II Portugal is neutral where business is concerned, and too much of the precious metal is being sold to Britain when Germany needs it to insure that Hitler's blitzkrieg is successful.

Cut to 1999 Lisbon, where the daughter of a prominent lawyer has been found dead on a beach. Ze Coelho, a liberal police inspector who is a widower with a daughter of his own, must sift through the life of Catarina Oliveira and discover why she was so brutally murdered. Her father is enigmatic, her mother suicidal; her friends were rock musicians and drug addicts.

The reader is treated to a wonderful portrait of Lisbon in the aftermath of the 1974 revolution that ousted Salazar from power, and the scars from that conflict are still close to the surface for the citizens of Lisbon, including Coehlo and his colleagues. We also see World War II in a slightly different manner from that to which we are accustomed--through the eyes of the Germans and the Portuguese. The pace of the book is leisurely but compelling as the events of 1941 and those in 1999 merge in an extraordinary climax

A Small Death in Lisbon

The Lusiads, epic poem by Luís de Camões, published in 1572 as Os Lusíadas. The work describes the discovery of a sea route to India by Vasco da Gama.

The Lusiads

"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, "The History of the Siege of Lisbon". His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.  Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, "The History of the Siege of Lisbon" is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history." The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole.

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade.
Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

In the first book of the Mountain Song Legacy series readers step into a small Kentucky coal mining town in the late 1800's where hope is found in the hearts of two young girls the vibrant, red-headed Maggie MacAuley and her fragile friend Summer Rankin. When Jonathan Stuart, the latest in a succession of educators, actually wants to continue teaching in the one-room schoolhouse, then Maggie and Summer know that he is special. So when Jonathan's cherished flute is stolen, the girls try to find a way to restore music to his life. Sorrow and joy follow in the days to come, and through it all Maggie, Jonathan, and a community rediscover the gifts of faith, friendship, and unwavering love. 

A Distant Music (The Mountain Song Legacy #1)

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in "Over the Edge of the World", biographer and journalist "Laurence Bergreen" entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself.

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

The extraordinary story of two generations in a Lisbon family of carpenters and of a father’s attempt to outrun his fate in the marathon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.

Set in the working-class district of Benfica in Lisbon, "The Piano Cemetery" tells the story of a family, and especially of the hopes and fears of the fathers who pass the baton of the generations on to their sons.

The Lazaro family are cabinet-makers who would rather be piano-makers. They have a carpentry shop in the Benfica district of Lisbon and there at the back is the ‘piano cemetery’ piled high with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing pianos all over the city. It is a mysterious and magical place, a place of solace, a dreaming place and, above all, a trysting place for lovers.

"The Piano Cemetery" is a wonderfully accomplished novel in which the true story of the Portuguese marathon-runner, Francisco Lazaro, is woven into a rich narrative of love, betrayal, domestic happiness and dashed hopes. Narrated in part by the father of Francisco Lazaro on the day his grandson is born and the day he himself dies and in part by his son as he runs the Stockholm marathon of 1908, remembering his family and his loves as he struggles against the heat and strives to outrun death itself. It is a beautifully constructed tale, that is by turns, violent and tender, funny and moving, with flashes of true insight, startling imagery and an instinctive understanding of families and their ways.

"The Piano Cemetery" establishes José Luís Peixoto not only as the leading Portuguese novelist of his generation, but as a major figure on the international literary scene.

The Piano Cemetery

For hundreds of years, a pack of shape-shifting immortals has been content to stay hidden deep within the Scottish wood, far from the dangers of the human world. But when the pack leader, Ulric, is betrayed by his longtime lover, he recklessly ventures beyond the borders of the forest, and starts roaming the streets of Bridesmere. It is there that he encounters Juliana Buxton, a dutiful daughter of a successful merchant. Ulric finds Juliana's wholesomeness deliciously irresistible, and consents to help her escape the clutches of her much older betrothed--if only to seduce her.  

For Juliana, Ulric's gentle fury inflames her desire and finally introduces her to the wickedly sensuous delights of searing passion. And as she begins to uncover the truth about his secret identity, something altogether new grows within in her--a forbidden longing to become immortal herself and remain by Ulric's side. But will Ulric grant the innocent maiden her bold wish, or will he cast her from his life and send her back to the treacherous world beyond the caves?

"Fans of bolder romances will relish [Emma Holly's] potent combination of heady sexuality and intriguing characterization."--"Publishers Weekly"

"Emma Holly is one of the best writers of erotic fiction around."--Susan Johnson

Hunting Midnight (Midnight, #2)

In this enchanting and evocative novel, Antonio Tabucchi takes the reader on a dream-like trip to Portugal, a country he is deeply attached to. He spent many years there as director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. He even wrote "Requiem" in Portuguese; it had to be translated into Italian for publication in his native Italy.

"Requiem"'s narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. But, it turns out, not twelve noon, twelve midnight, so he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounters—a young junky, a taxi driver who is not familiar with the streets, several waiters, a gypsy, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel, an accordionist, in all almost two dozen people both real and illusionary. Finally he meets The Guest, the ghost of the long dead great poet Fernando Pessoa. Part travelog, part autobiography, part fiction, and even a bit of a cookbook, "Requiem" becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.

Requiem: A Hallucination

Rick Steves Portugal

Moon Portugal: With Madeira & the Azores (Travel Guide)

Sonnets from the Portuguese

The Scent of a Lie is a book of fourteen inter-connected stories set in two charismatic towns in Portugal where characters weave in and out of the narrative. The book can be read as a novel in fragments. This is a remarkable debut collection of tales told by a true storyteller. The Scent of a Lie received the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean &amp; Canada region and the 2002 City of Calgary Book Award. One of the stories received the 2001 Canongate Prize for short fiction at the International Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Scent Of A Lie, (…) marks the debut of a remarkable writer. - John Terauds, Toronto Star With this book of linked stories, Paulo Da Costa adds piquant new spice to the CanLit broth. Paying homage to a fabulist tradition running from Marquez and Borges and Carlos Fuentes all the way back to Cervantes, Da Costa evokes his God-beset, earthbound peasants, priests and villagers with palpable, redolent precision. Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail The reader can see just how well da Costa writes: the language here is lyrical and flowing, and the imaginativeness of the stories speaks for itself. Da Costa is clearly a writer to watch. Tim McNamara, Edmonton Journal The most uniformly fresh, sprightly, meaty work of Canadian fiction I’ve read in a long time. Vue weekly, Print Culture - Christopher Wiebe

The Scent of a Lie

Vanessa Mazur knows she's doing the right thing. She shouldn't feel bad for quitting. Being an assistant/housekeeper/fairy godmother to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans and none of them include washing extra-large underwear longer than necessary.

But when Aiden Graves shows up at her door wanting her to come back, she's beyond shocked.

For two years, the man known as The Wall of Winnipeg couldn't find it in him to tell her good morning or congratulate her on her birthday. Now? He's asking for the unthinkable.

What do you say to the man who is used to getting everything he wants?

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

The story of one couple's move from the UK to live in the sun.
From propositioning a builder, to battling bureaucracy, and adapting to a slower pace of life in the sunshine; this is the refreshingly honest and often hilarious account of one couple's move from the rainy UK to the sunny Algarve in Portugal.
Alyson and Dave Sheldrake were determined to realise their dream of living abroad; so they ended their jobs, packed up everything they owned and moved to the Algarve to start a new life. Follow them as they battle with the Portuguese language, set up their own businesses, adopt a rescue dog and navigate the 'expat' world.
Part guidebook, mostly memoir; this book is for anyone who has ever wondered what moving abroad is really like; and is essential reading for anyone considering moving to Portugal.

Living the Dream: in the Algarve, Portugal

Excerpt from Frei Luis de Sousa, Vol. 1: Vida de D. Frei Bartolomeu Dos Martires

Lisboa, t. Vm, parte 1, pzig.l a 101, onde vem estampada Me moria historica e critica acirra de Frei Luis de Sousa.

Frei Luis de Sousa, Vol. 1: Vida de D. Frei Bartolomeu DOS Martires (Classic Reprint)

Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love.

Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of 
  Manhattan
, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.

Skylight Confessions

Portugal is Europe's southwestern extremity, washed by the Atlantic, and warmed by the Mediterranean sun. Alone among Iberia's ancient kingdoms, in it's independence from Spain, it is a nation about half the size of Florida, with two -thirds the population. Yet over centuries, it has influenced the lives of the rest of us far more than many much larger and more powerful countries. The Portuguese gave the English afternoon tea, and Bombay, the key to empire. They brought to Africa protection from malaria, and slave-shipments to America; to India, higher education, curry and samosas; to Japan, tempura and firearms.

The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World

This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history of this region has been badly neglected in comparison with studies of other states in medieval Europe. When considered at all, it has been largely written from Christian sources and seen in terms of the Christian Reconquest. Hugh Kennedy raises the profile of this important area, bringing the subject alive with vivid translations from Arab sources. This will be fascinating reading for historians of medieval Europe and for historians of the middle east drawing out the similarities and contrasts with other areas of the Muslim world.

Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of Al-Andalus

Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent's south-west rim. In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led Europe out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and they brought Asia and Europe together. Evidence of their one-time four-continent empire can still be felt, not least in the Portuguese language which is spoken by more than 220 million people from Brazil, across parts of Africa to Asia. Analyzing present-day society and culture, The Portuguese also considers the nation's often tumultuous past. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was one of Europe's greatest natural disasters, strongly influencing continental thought and heralding Portugal's extended decline. The Portuguese also weathered Europe's longest dictatorship under twentieth-century ruler Ant nio Salazar. A 1974 military coup, called the ...

The Portuguese: A Portrait of a People

Wild Guide Portugal: Hidden Places, Great Adventures and the Good Life

Romance de Júlio Dinis publicado, em 1866, sob o formato de folhetins no Jornal do Porto, e em volume no ano seguinte. Segundo o próprio autor, numa referência das «Notas», a obra teria principiado a ser escrita em 1863, durante a permanência de Júlio Dinis em Ovar. O título refere-se às personagens femininas do romance, duas meias-irmãs órfãs, Margarida e Clara, de personalidades opostas, adotadas pelo Reitor. A intriga centra-se, contudo, em Daniel, segundo filho do lavrador José das Dornas. Depois de, em rapazinho, ter renunciado à carreira eclesiástica por amor a Margarida, Daniel regressa à aldeia, já médico e completamente esquecido do seu idílio de infância. Para além do Reitor, a obra apresenta uma interessante galeria de tipos rústicos, onde se destacam as figuras de José das Dornas, João Semana, o bondoso médico rural, João da Esquina, o dono da loja, e a sua esposa interesseira, a ti'Zefa, a beata linguaruda, entre outras. Em suma, As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor traduz a vida rural portuguesa da época.

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor. In Infopédia [Em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2012. [Consult. 2012-01-03]. Disponível na www: 

"As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor", de Júlio Dinis, primeiro romance português do século, publicado inicialmente em 1866 em forma de folhetim, [...] só no ano seguinte apareceria em livro. [O s]eu caráter moralizador e a religiosidade que perpassa por todo o romance, a bondade capaz de chegar a extremos quase incríveis de sacrifício pessoal, são alguns dos ingredientes que transformaram em muito pouco tempo o autor desconhecido em sucesso nacional. 

A calma da cidade do interior (Ovar - Portugal) e a observação da vida simples das pessoas da aldeia propiciaram o aparecimento desse romance que, algum tempo depois, se tornaria um dos mais famosos em Portugal.

Os capítulos são tipicamente folhetinescos: unidades narrativas com peripécias e final em suspensão. É um romance [que] está cheio de ironias bem humoradas, tornando-o, apesar do moralismo intencional, de leitura mais agradável.

Como costuma acontecer com escritores românticos, Júlio Dinis também vê o mundo com as lentes do maniqueísmo. Assim, assenta sua obra em um jogo contínuo de oposições. Entre as principais, destacam-se: A cidade - O campo / A modernidade - A tradição / O desejo - O amor.

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor

"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal" helps you get the most from your visit to this unique European country. You'll find in-depth detail on all the important sights with maps, photos, and illustrated 3-D cutaways for major sights.

DK's insider travel tips and essential local information will help you discover the best that Portugal has to offer. The guide comes packed with reviews and listings for hotels, restaurants, and bars for all budgets, as well as beaches, scenic routes, thematic tours, and maps of all major sights. Markets and festivals are listed town by town.

What's new in "DK Eyewitness Travel Guides" New itineraries based on length of stay, regional destinations, and themes. Brand-new hotel and restaurants listings including DK's Choice recommendations. Restaurant locations plotted on redrawn area maps and listed with sights. Redesigned and refreshed interiors make the guides even easier to read.

With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Portugal" truly shows you this country as no one else can.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Portugal

Lisbon played a pivotal role in World War II, though not a shot was fired there. It temporarily lodged a host of refugees, spies, secret police, bankers, writers, artists, and others. It was once referred to as being like the movie Casablancatimes twenty.

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945

«Em 147 a.C., alguns milhares de guerrilheiros lusitanos encontram-se cercados pelas tropas do pretor Caio Vetílio. Em princípio, trata-se apenas de mais um episódio da guerra que a República Romana trava há longos anos para se apoderar da Península Ibérica. Mas os Lusitanos, acossados pelo inimigo, elegem um dos seus e entregam-lhe o comando supremo. Esse homem, que durante sete anos vai ser o pesadelo de Roma, chama-se Viriato.
Entre 147 e 139, ano em que foi assassinado, Viriato derrotou sucessivos exércitos romanos, levou à revolta grande parte dos povos ibéricos e foi o responsável pelo início da célebre Guerra de Numância.
Viriato foi um verdadeiro génio militar, político e diplomático. Mas, sobretudo, Viriato foi o defensor de um mundo que morria asfixiado pelo poderio romano: o mundo em que mergulham as raízes mais profundas de Portugal e de Espanha. É esse mundo, já então em declínio, que este livro tenta evocar.

Aquando do seu aparecimento, em 1984, Fernando Assis Pacheco escreveu serem raras as estreias com tanta qualidade. Depois disso, A Voz dos Deuses, ao longo de sucessivas edições, tornou-se um "clássico" do romance histórico português contemporâneo.

Plano Nacional de Leitura
 Livro recomendado para o 3º ciclo, destinado a leitura autónoma. Também recomendado para a Formação de Adultos como sugestão de leitura.

A Voz dos Deuses

Em plena segunda metade do séc. XIX, Júlio Dinis apresenta-nos uma família que habita a ribeirinha cidade do Porto, os Whitestone. Mr. Richard é o chefe de família, um homem que simboliza fielmente a austeridade britânica. Homem de hábitos e já viúvo, é dono de uma casa comercial na Rua dos Ingleses, centro nevrálgico do comércio na cidade. Carlos é o filho mais velho. 

Um jovem boémio, frequentador assíduo de cafés e de teatros, está completamente desligado dos negócios da família. Jenny é a filha mais nova. Desde a morte da mãe que ocupa o seu lugar no que toca a tudo que está relacionado com o universo doméstico. É ainda uma grande confidente do irmão e uma mediadora entre este e o pai de ambos. Todo o enredo se precipita quando, num baile de Carnaval, Carlos conhece uma misteriosa mascarada que, mais tarde, se vem a revelar ser Cecília, a filha de Manuel Quintino, guarda-livros na casa comercial dos Whitestone.Clássicos Porto Editora

Portugal

Pereira Maintains

Antonio Tabucchi

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (The Sephardic Cycle, #1)

Richard Zimler

Alentejo Blue

Monica Ali

Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture

José Saramago

Baltasar and Blimunda

José Saramago

The High Mountains of Portugal

Yann Martel

Night Train to Lisbon

Pascal Mercier

A Small Death in Lisbon

Robert Wilson

The High Mountains of Portugal

Yann Martel

The Lusiads

Luiz De Camoes

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

José Saramago

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

Roger Crowley

A Distant Music (The Mountain Song Legacy #1)

B.J. Hoff

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Laurence Bergreen

The Piano Cemetery

José Luís Peixoto

Hunting Midnight (Midnight, #2)

Emma Holly

Requiem: A Hallucination

Antonio Tabucchi

Rick Steves Portugal

Rick Steves

Moon Portugal: With Madeira & the Azores (Travel Guide)

Carrie-Marie Bratley

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Scent of a Lie

Paulo da Costa

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

Mariana Zapata

Living the Dream: in the Algarve, Portugal

Alyson Sheldrake

Frei Luis de Sousa, Vol. 1: Vida de D. Frei Bartolomeu DOS Martires (Classic Reprint)

Luís De Sousa

Skylight Confessions

Alice Hoffman

The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed the World

Martin Page

Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of Al-Andalus

Hugh Kennedy

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Wild Guide Portugal: Hidden Places, Great Adventures and the Good Life

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