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Dear Friends,
It is a great pleasure to present to you our
agency’s highlights for Frankfurt, 2009.
You are also welcome to visit our site
www.agenciariff.com.br, where you will
find further information, foreign sales list
and sample translations.
Please feel free to contact us at any
time should you need any help.
Contacts can be made directly or through
our dear friends Anne-Marie Vallat
[email protected]
and Nicole Witt [email protected]
Lygia Fagundes
T e ll e s
Author of over twenty works – novels, short stories and
memoirs ‑, Lygia Fagundes Telles is the great lady of Brazilian literature. Companhia das Letras has recently started
relaunching Lygia’s books in Brazil, with covers elegantly
illustrated with Beatriz Milhazes’s works. The first books
launched were The Girls, Invention and Memory and Before
the Green Ball. The next ones to be published soon are The
Marble Dance, Rats’ Seminary and The Dark Night and Me.
The Spies
Our Delusions is an essay on some of the modern myths
that have the power to both attract and impose limits to us
at the same time. Less solemn substitutes of ancient myths,
created to defend us from fear and astonishment before
the nature phenomena, birth and death, etc, the so called
“modern myths” deal with earthly matters: the myth of
eternal youth and the obligations of our false liberty, for
example.
Still recovering from the weekend’s hangover, an employee of a small publishing
house receives an envelope with the first
pages of an unfinished confessions book
written by someone called Ariadne, who
promises to tell her story with a secret lover
and then commit suicide. Tormented by romantic dreams,
this frustrated bohemian decides to find out who Ariadne is
and try to save her from her imminent death.
With sensibility and humour, Lya
Luft and her son Eduardo Luft, philosopher, tell the delightful adventure
of three children that learn how wonderful it is to grow up questioning
the world, always trying to ask the
essential questions, even though the
answers might not always be found.
Lucia Riff, Laura Riff & João Paulo Riff
Agência Riff – Rio de Janeiro
Flavio Carneiro
Luis Fernando
V e r i ss i m o
Our Delusions
Children Think
Many thanks,
Livia Garcia-Roza
L y a L u ft
Brazilian Summer Comedies
Sex, love, friendship, sex, and sex again are
the recurrent themes of this short-stories
collection, in which the master of Brazilian
humour examines the routine of Brazilian
middle-class on holidays, playfully revealing their weaknesses as their longings and
obsessions come out.
Sergio Rodrigues
Carlos Domingos
Disguised Opportunities
Elza, The Girl
The Confession
Milamor
Milamor introduces us to Maria, a woman near her sixties who has been living
with her patronizing daughter since the
death of her husband. Hoping to rediscover joy in her life and determined to
create new memories, she nurtures a platonic love for a man she barely knows in
a compelling story.
Girl’s Bedroom
Girls’ Bedroom, praised as “Highly Recommended” by the FNLIJ, tells the story
of a girl lost in the age between childhood
and adolescence, with a heart full of questions, doubts and pain. Daughter of divorced parents, she has made of her bedroom a secret heaven, in which she confides her feelings to
dolls and a cricket that lives in a flower pot.
This novel is narrated by a man
in a frantic quest, using pleasure
and death as the instruments to
regain control of his own life.
He kidnaps a woman, takes her to a desert shore, ties her
up to a chair and starts to tell her a long story the reader
will find to be a story of love, fear and surprise in which she
plays an important and unusual role.
The Distance Of Things
Pedro is a fourteen year-old boy who lost his
father while still very young, and just received
the bad news that his mother had died in a car
accident. He has no choice but to live with his
uncle, who doesn’t even allow him to visit her
grave. Suspicious, he believes that adults are hiding something from him, and decides to act like a detective, investigating his uncle’s privacy. He then discovers secrets that
will change his whole life. For The Distance of Things, Flávio
Carneiro won the Barco a Vapor Award, from Editora SM,
and has recently been awarded the Jabuti Prize 2009.
In a bold mixture of reality and fiction, historical research and literary invention,
this fast-paced novel tells the
real tragic story of Elza Fernandes, a 16 year-old communist who got involved in the famous “Intentona” – a failed
attempt to overthrow the Brazilian government orchestrated in 1935 by the Third International.
Arnaldo Bloch
The Karamabloch
Brothers
Arnaldo Bloch narrates with
humour and literary sensibility the picturesque saga
of his own family, from the
end of the 19th century until today, covering both the
heyday times, with the Bloch publishers and the Manchete Magazine, and the beginning of downfall, with the
Manchete TV.
Disguised Opportunities is a
compendium of real stories of
companies and individuals that
turned problems and serious crisis into great opportunities. Result of seven years of research, it
brings hundreds of curious facts
and exciting passages involving the biggest world brands
and some of the most admired entrepreneurs of all times.
Arthur Dapieve
Black Music
Michael Philips is in his way
to be a seven-footer, when
he is kidnapped by a gang of
Rio de Janeiro’s drug dealers.
Seeing at stake his dreams of
playing basketball and studying trumpet at the same university attended by his idol Michael Jordan, his passion for jazz begins to captivate both the
chief dealer, a 17 years old white boy who dreams of becoming
a gansta rap star, and the captivity’s cooker, a 16 years old mulatto girl who loves to dance at one of Rio’s famous bailes funk.