This month, the first novel by American filmmaker Woody Allen, ‘Que se Passa com o Baum?’, is being released by the Almedina group. The novel portrays an intellectual paralyzed by neurotic worries about the futility and emptiness of life, offering a satirical view of the New York publishing world, and will be published by Edições 70.
The same imprint will publish ‘O Golpe dos Capitães’ by Wilfred Burchett, offering a look at the Carnation Revolution through the eyes of one of the era’s most important foreign correspondents, making its debut publication in Portugal.
Companhia das Letras introduces new releases, including the unprecedented publication of ‘A legião estrangeira’ by Clarice Lispector, reviving the original 1964 edition as part of the ‘Fundo de gaveta’ collection.
A new novel by Ricardo Adolfo, ‘A chefe dos maus’, set in Japan, where the author resides, and another by João Tordo, ‘Inventário da solidão’, are also being published.
Alfaguara brings back Carmen Maria Machado with a novel addressing the memory of college abuse.
Returning is the multi-award-winning French writer Marie NDiaye with ‘Ladivine’, and Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince with ‘A nossa hora’, a testament to survival from the author.
This month also sees the arrival of ‘O que não sei de ti’, the debut novel of Canadian author Eric Chacour, already awarded several prizes.
By Cavalo de Ferro, another of George Simenon’s ‘romans durs’, ‘A casa dos Krull’, will be released, alongside the internationally acclaimed work of Hungarian Péter Nádas, ‘O fim de um romance familiar’, and the latest novel by Hungarian László Krasznahorkai, ‘Herscht 07769’, a satirical take on modern times, written in a single sentence from start to finish.
Elsinore continues republishing works by Svetlana Alexievich with ‘As vozes de Chernobyl — História de um desastre nuclear’ and will release ‘O colapso’, a new book by Édouard Louis, concluding his family cycle.
The imprint also publishes ‘A estrada do Donbas’ by Ukrainian writer Serhij Zhadan, a ‘road novel’ depicting a return to a desolate region with Soviet industrial landscapes and armed gangs.
The housing crisis is the theme of Alex Couto’s new novel at Suma de Letras, ‘Os Periquitos Somos Nós’, while Objetiva releases an essay by Yanis Varoufakis, ‘Tecnofeudalismo’, exploring how technological companies are centralizing power, privatizing virtual space, enslaving minds, and reshaping the geopolitical map.
This month, Relógio d’Água plans to release multiple award winners, such as ‘Heart Lamp’ by Banu Mushtaq, this year’s International Booker Prize winner, ‘Pergunta 7’ by Richard Flanagan, Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 recipient, ‘Tóquio, Estação de Ueno’ by Yu Miri, winner of the National Book Award, and ‘Visitação’, a new novel by Jenny Erpenbeck, International Booker winner in 2024.
The publisher will also release ‘O Imperador da Alegria’ by Ocean Vuong, ‘Jane Austen: Uma Biografia’ by Claire Tomalin, ‘O Fim dos Estados Unidos da América’ by Gonçalo M. Tavares, and ‘As Planícies’ by Gerald Murnane.
Guerra e Paz highlight ‘Cartografia do Desejo’, an unpublished work by photographer Alfredo Cunha, with a foreword by Valter Hugo Mãe and texts by Ariana Aragão.
In fiction, ‘As Sombras do Combatente’ by Fernando Paulouro Neves, a novel about the clandestine life of veterinarian Eduardo Monteiro during Portugal’s Estado Novo dictatorship, and the thriller ‘Treze Horas para Chicago’ by Riley Sagre will be released.
Non-fiction releases include ‘Reparações e Outras Penitências Históricas’ by João Pedro Marques and ‘As Teorias da Conspiração’ by Pierre-André Taguieff.
Porto Editora publishes ‘O Louco de Deus no Fim do Mundo’ by Javier Cercas, a literary essay about faith, death, and redemption, and ‘Madona com Casaco de Peles’ by Turkish journalist and activist Sabahattin Ali, narrating an impossible love between tradition and freedom.
‘Como Proteger a Democracia’ by David Dinis, a warning against indifference, the normalization of radical discourse, and the fragility of institutions under authoritarian leaders, is one of the proposals by Ideias de Ler.
Assírio & Alvim will bring forward works by national authors, such as ‘A Destruição do Tempo’ by Luís Quintais, a personal anthology revisiting three decades of poetic writing; ‘A Partilha do Lume’, where A.M. Pires Cabral pays homage to poets and painters; and ‘O Ramo da Tília’ by J. Carlos Teixeira, an essential collection of the German troubadour tradition.
Livros do Brasil releases another title by Annie Ernaux, ‘A Escrita como Uma Faca’, an intimate dialogue between the author and writer Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, revealing the French Nobel laureate’s view of writing as a political, personal, and transformative act.
Bertand Editora will launch a new edition of one of Stephen King’s iconic titles, ‘Salem’s Lot — A hora do vampiro’, celebrating its 50th anniversary with special graphic design.
Quetzal will publish a book by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, ‘A solidão do manager’, featuring the second major case of detective Pepe Carvalho, previously unpublished in Portugal.
Another highlight for this month from the same imprint is the return to fiction by José Luis Peixoto, following ‘Almoço de Domingo’ (2021), this time with another fictional story titled ‘A Montanha’, born from a non-fiction project.
‘Tudo sobre deus’, a new novel by José Eduardo Agualusa, centered on memory, the miracle of life, and a chapel in the desert overlooking the sea, is another offering from Quetzal, which will also publish ‘Recordações e Andorinhas’ by J. Rentes de Carvalho, ‘Polo Norte’ by Erling Kagge, and ‘Recordar 1755’ by André Canhoto Costa.
At Dom Quixote, one of the month’s highlights is ‘Aquilo em Que Preferia não Pensar’ by Dutch author Jente Posthuma, a finalist for the International Booker, exploring grief through brief and surgical episodes.
The same Leya imprint releases a non-fiction book by South African writer J.M. Coetzee and Argentine author Mariana Dimópulos, ‘O dom das línguas’, shedding light on current linguistic and philosophical issues.
Other new releases include ‘um Punhado de Flechas’, a novel by Argentine writer María Gainza that blends narrative, essay, and art book; ‘A Biblioteca do Censor de Livros’ by Kuwaiti author Bothayna Al-Essa; ‘O Surpreendente Silêncio dos Homens’ by Rita Ferro; and ‘Uma Vida de Jesus’ by Japanese author Shusaku Endo.
‘A Cinco Palmos dos Olhos’ by Carlos Campaniço, a novel depicting a village emerging from the Revolution, will be released by Casa das Letras.
Presença’s major highlight for this month is a new book from Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, ‘Memórias de Montanhas Distantes’, showcasing the author’s illustrated diaries for the first time.
