Fábulas quase sempre desconcertantes, onde a fome é tema frequente. Belíssimas xilogravuras, ainda que nem sempre bem casadas com os textos.
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Vítor reviewed Fábulas by Matias Ntundo
Review of 'Fábulas' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Vítor rated La mondialisation de l'inégalité: 4 stars
Vítor rated Le mari de mon frère - tome 1: 5 stars
Vítor reviewed A porteira, a madame by Joana Carvalho Fernandes (Retratos da Fundação)
Review of 'A porteira, a madame' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Coleção de retratos de emigrantes portugueses em França, desde soldados da I Grande Guerra que ficaram para trás à emigração da mais recente crise económica. A maioria dos retratados mereceria um livro só para si, mas Joana Carvalho Fernandes faz um belíssimo resumo das suas vidas em poucas páginas. Estórias felizes e outras menos, no conjunto é um retrato de toda uma comunidade com mais de 1 milhão de pessoas ainda hoje.
Vítor rated L'Arabe du futur Tome 4: 5 stars
Vítor rated Sixty million Frenchmen can't be wrong: 3 stars
Vítor reviewed Como se o mundo não tivesse leste by Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (Livros Cotovia)
Review of 'Como se o mundo não tivesse leste' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Belíssima coleção de contos que têm em comum os efeitos da seca no Sul de Angola no final do período colonial. Uma visão literária que pode servir de alerta ao efeito dramático que as alterações climáticas podem surtir. Uma leitura por isso bastante atual.
Vítor rated Hunt for the southern continent: 4 stars
Hunt for the southern continent by James Cook (Great journeys -- no. 7)
Vítor rated Fifty Shades of Grey Geheimes Verlangen: 1 star
October by China Miéville
"Acclaimed fantasy author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down The renowned fantasy and …
Vítor rated Heidelberger Herbst.: 4 stars
Vítor rated Einer singt falsch: 4 stars
Einer singt falsch by Felix, Theo, Felix. (Leichte Lektüren -- Deutsch als Fremdsprache in drei Stufen -- Stufe 2)
Story designed to teach German.
Vítor reviewed Where or when by Anita Shreve
Review of 'Where or when' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Not my usual kind of read. I came across this book after ending my vacation book too early and finding this one on a book sharing shelf. The writing is actually good and, together with one caracther's obsession of one day going to Portugal, kept me going till the end. The storyline is however a bit hard to buy: a one week teenage love story that comes back in full force 31 years later. It is however a mostly pleasant read that feels very cinematic.
Vítor reviewed The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
The High Mountains of Portugal is a 2016 novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. The …
Review of 'The High Mountains of Portugal' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I was a bit surprised to find so many negative reviews of this book here at Goodreads as I truly enjoyed it. I guess it helps that I never read "The life of Pi", so I came to "The High Mountains of Portugal" without the same expectations as apparently many other readers. One of the things I enjoyed the most is how Portuguese the book feels, its weirdness and tragicomedy reminds of Saramago and one almost never senses the tone "of the foreign writer describing the exotic land", which I greatly appreciated. In any case Portugal is just the scenario of the book, its main topic is mourning and each part is also a lesson on topics so different and unexpected as automobile pioneer era, christian theology and chimpanzee behavior - real lessons, not mere show off of random knowledge. All in all I found it tremendously enjoyable and enriching. …
I was a bit surprised to find so many negative reviews of this book here at Goodreads as I truly enjoyed it. I guess it helps that I never read "The life of Pi", so I came to "The High Mountains of Portugal" without the same expectations as apparently many other readers. One of the things I enjoyed the most is how Portuguese the book feels, its weirdness and tragicomedy reminds of Saramago and one almost never senses the tone "of the foreign writer describing the exotic land", which I greatly appreciated. In any case Portugal is just the scenario of the book, its main topic is mourning and each part is also a lesson on topics so different and unexpected as automobile pioneer era, christian theology and chimpanzee behavior - real lessons, not mere show off of random knowledge. All in all I found it tremendously enjoyable and enriching. A must read.