The stranger (Albert Camus)
It is a little-big book. Small in number of pages, the large size and the humanism that Camus (1913-...
Ciociara (Alberto Moravia)
Ciociaria, the name given to some poor areas southeast of Rome, is also the name of a novel by Alber...
Scenes From Village Life (Amos Oz)
Amos Oz introduces us to the characters of a village in seven peculiar stories. As we read and brows...
The Slap (Christos Tsiolkas)
What may represent a slap - especially if given to a friend´s son - was the motto for the author to...
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
Brilliant novel by D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers is the story Lawrence´s parent´s marital crises...
Crime and Punishment (Dostoiévski)
«Crime and Punishment» is for me Dostoyevsky´s masterpiece, one of the most influential writes of...
The Idiot (Dostoiévski)
«The Idiot» is a timeless work of a great genius called Dostoyevsky. In this book, the author desc...
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoiévski)
The novel focuses on the Karamazov family in far-off 19th-century Russia, or even better, on Fyodor ...
Testament (Elie Wiesel)
Stalin sends to execute in 1952, thirteen of Russia's Jewish writers. Before that in the chain, Pa...
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
https://www.portaldaliteratura.com/livros.php?livro=8388From Kafka are some of the most disturbing w...
A hundred years of solitude (Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
"A hundred years of solitude", a book that deserves a hundred readings and a hundred reflections. & ...
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Is there anyone capable of waiting fifty years for love? The novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by ...
1984 (George Orwell)
Eric Arthur Blair, known by the pseudonym George Orwell and the book «1984», was of English nation...
Kafka On The Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Haruki Murakami did a little of everything, he even managed a jazz bar. He is a popular writer, who ...
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
Isabel Archer, a young American orphan, goes with her aunt to London, looking for freedom, fun and c...
Peter Camenzind (Herman Hess)
Herman Hess did not have a vocation as a theologian as his parents intended, he first worked as an a...
Steppenwolf (Herman Hesse)
A man who feels half-human and half-wolf, and it is said that there are similarities between the ide...
Desert (Jean-Marie Le Clézio)
His name is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, won the Nobel for Literature in 2008.Went to Nigeria when...
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Through Antoine Roquentin - a lonely and troubled character - Sartre embraces the question of existe...
The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Conjugal plot. By Jeffrey Eugenides, its more than a romance novel. The protagonists - Madeleine, a ...
To a God Unknown (John Steinback)
«What happened to me?» he asked himself. «What happened to me? Do I have such a need?» He tried ...
Butcher´s Crossing (John Williams)
Saturate the world and eager for adventure, young Will Andrews decides to travel to the West. There ...
Stoner (John Williams)
Reading "Stoner", a romance published in 1965 that fell into oblivion, was to discover John Williams...
Baltasar & Blimunda (José Saramago)
Memorial of the Convent is one of the best known novels of José Saramago and is probably the one th...
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (José Saramago)
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991) was, until Cain, Jose Saramago´s most controversial wor...
Blindness (José Saramago)
"Blindness" is an enticing metaphor about our society. The characters in the work are affected by a ...
All the names (José Saramago)
An employee at the Civil Registry Archive's hobby is collecting news from newspapers and magazines a...
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
It is a disturbing novel... A carousel of emotions while reading it: first slightly bored, then curi...
The Alexandria Quartet (Lawrence Durrell)
The Alexandria Quartet focuses on the story of Justin, banker Nessim´s wife, Leila, the banker´s m...
Anna Karenina (Leon Tolstoi)
Plot revolves around the story of adultery of a woman in nineteenth-century Russia and the analysis ...
The Wind Whistling in the Crane (Lídia Jorge)
The story centers around the relationship between Milene and Antonino Mata, key figures in the clash...
The Bad Girl (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Antics of the Bad Girl is a love story full of comings and goings over four decades. A moving story ...
In Praise of the Stepmother (Mário Vargas Llosa)
Mario Vargas Llosa is not content, he sharpens our senses to the point of staying suspended until th...
The Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Thirty-one years of Trujillo dictatorship, the Benefactor, the generalissimo, the god of the Dominic...
The Spell of India (Miguel Real)
Summary of an e-mail I sent to Miguel Real, right after I read the book: history, adventures, descri...
Heaven Voice (Miguel Real)
Historical novel centered on the 1755 earthquake, with characters that seem to have life – Julinho...
Immortality (Milan Kundera)
Immortality offers us several plots in the form of testing and the ability to dive to the bottom of ...
Farewell Waltz (Milan Kundera)
Why is it called the Farewell Waltz? Why Kundera puts us to dance with seven characters and the cont...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
But man, because he has no sense of a life, has no chance to check his hypothesis through experiment...
The Joke (Milan Kundera)
Optimism is the opium of mankind! A healthy spirit stinks of stupidity. Long live Trotsky». A postc...
My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
«My name is Red» is in appearance a detective novel... Seen from another perspective, it is ultima...
Silent House (Orhan Pamuk)
What is most surprising about this book is the disconcerting form of the five narrators, each with t...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a young woman who becomes a model for a painting by th...
Pavilion of Women (Pearl Buck)
Pearl Buck, American , studied in Shanghai to fifteen years and worked in a Chinese shelter that hou...
Terra Abençoada (Pearl Buck)
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck surprises in this book - as in many others -, for...
The dying animal (Philip Roth)
Philip Roth is one of my favorite authors. «Dying Animal» was the second of several books I´ve ev...
Portnoy´s Complaint (Philip Roth)
Alexander Portnoy confessed in a surprising and hilarious way. A theme around the Oedipus complex an...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a gothic novella by the author Robert Louis Stevenson. Th...
Bufo & Spallanzani (Rubem Fonseca) (Rubem Fonseca)
A story in which the novel is being written. Delfina Delamare, killed with a gunshot to the chest, s...
Divorce A Buda (Sándor Márai)
Maybe? He wouldn´t be a doctor if he could not save her. It was a school thing... teach everywhere,...
Embers (Sándor Márai)
Embers, one of the most admired and iconic novels by Sándor Márai, is a easy text, full of deep ...
.webp)
Conversations in Bolzano (Sándor Márai)
A Hand Painted Masterpiece, brilliantly written. A Venetian nobleman who confronts power and runs aw...
The Right Woman (Sándor Márai)
The Right Woman , a book with a story told to four voices: her, the ex-wife; his husband; the lover...
The Beautiful and Dawned (Scott Fitzgerald)
Scott Fitzgerald, who saw himself as a beautiful and intelligent man, always had a tendency to expos...
Julia (Somerset Maugham)
Julia Lambert, a talented and sensual London theater actress in the 30's, meets through her husband ...
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The novel «The Red and the Black» written in 1830, is a masterpiece by Stendhal. The book revolves...
Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
«Away from the Madding Crowd» is one of the most interesting novels of Thomas Hardy. Gabriel Oak ...
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
Tempting to say that if The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann did not exist Literature would not be what...
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
A fabulous classic, what I call great literature. The story centers on Jean Valjean, imprisoned for ...
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando ‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’, playfully ...
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita, classic book by the Russian Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was and is provocative… suffice i...
The Romantic (William Boyd)
About this novel The Guardian wrote: picaresque, moving and big-hearted, this book is Boyd at his be...