Recent reprints include “Sophie’s Choice” by William Styron, a tale of a couple grappling with their inner demons—featuring a Catholic Polish Auschwitz survivor and a troubled Jewish man—which was adapted into a film in 1982 starring Meryl Streep.
Another reprint from Livros do Brasil is “Address Unknown” by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, a pioneering narrative exposing the brutality of Nazism, depicted through letters between an American Jewish art gallery owner in San Francisco and his former partner, who has returned to Germany.
Antígona is set to release “We Sons of Eichmann” (1988) by Günther Anders, a collection of two letters. The first was penned after reading Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” (1963), and the second in the 1980s, both addressed to the eldest son of the man responsible for orchestrating deportations to Nazi extermination camps.
Another offering from the publisher is “The Peace of the Beehives” by Alice Rivaz (1901-1998), a diary of a woman seeking emancipation, exploring male domination and gender relations, a work anticipating modern feminist debates without activism or moralism.
Almedina is set to publish, through Editions 70, “The Night of Power – The Betrayal of the Middle East,” the posthumous work of British journalist Robert Fisk. As a Middle East correspondent, Fisk critiques Western hypocrisy and interference, covering topics from Arab uprisings to the Syrian civil war, Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and tensions in Lebanon, blending journalism with historical analysis and eyewitness accounts.
“Gonçalo M. Tavares: A Ping-Pong Table and a Small Lake,” features a conversation between the writer and José Jorge Letria, part of the “Thread of Memory” series, a collection of interviews with notable figures in Portuguese arts and culture. This is one of the new releases from Guerra e Paz, which is also set to launch “The Inconstant Thread of Days: Memories of a Floating Life” by Shen Fu, a classic of world literature, finally translated into Portuguese.
In Relógio d’Água’s publishing plans are another work by Ana Teresa Pereira, “Have Ya Got Any Castles, Baby”, and the book “Tonho and the Souls” by Jaime Rocha.
Internationally, the spotlight shines on N.K. Jemisin, an acclaimed speculative fiction and fantasy author. Her book “The Stone Sky,” the third in the “Broken Earth” series—which won the 2018 Hugo Award and Nebula Award for best novel—will be published. It follows the earlier books “The Obelisk Gate” and “The Fifth Season”.
Regarding classics, Relógio d’Água will publish “Bouvard et Pécuchet” and “Dictionary of Received Ideas” by Gustave Flaubert, “Zipper and His Father” by Joseph Roth, along with another book by Italian author Natalia Ginzburg, “Never Will You Ask Me”.
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