Criado com a colaboração de uma equipa de especialistas portugueses, este livro procura despertar a curiosidade sobre a fauna, a flora e outros aspetos do mundo natural que podem ser observados em Portugal.　

In the terrifying atmosphere of late 1970’s Buenos Aires, a young militant couple engaged in the resistance against the military regime adopt a child.Matters had reached a nadir; people were informing on friends and family members, who were then captured by the regime and subjected to horrific torture. Amid this ever-growing oppression, the couple and their baby flee to Brazil, believing it to be a more tranquil country in which to raise a family and pursue their lives.

In Brazil, the couple add to their brood with a biological son and daughter,and family relations become more complicated. As psychoanalysts, the parents are familiar with the theories on adopted and biological children,but life is always different from any theoretical discourse. It is up to Sebastion, the sensitive youngest son, to examine the family’s history of violence and exile, and, more importantly, to rewrite the family’s narrative.The result, written in a prose that is both lyrical and essayistic, is a powerful account where Sebastián’s intimate past and the history of a country overlap in an ingenious manner reminiscent of recent Argentinean fiction such as THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES.　

20世纪70年代后期，布宜诺斯艾利斯洋溢着恐怖的氛围，一对年轻的激进分子夫妇在抵抗军事政权的过程中收养了一个孩子。情况急转直下，许多朋友和家人被当局抓获，并遭受了可怕的酷刑。被逼无奈下，这对夫妇和孩子逃到了巴西，他们相信巴西是一个较为和平的国家，在那里他们可以养家糊口。

在巴西，这对夫妇有了自己的亲生儿子和女儿，家庭关系变得更加复杂。作为精神分析学家，这对父母非常熟悉有关收养子女和亲生子女的理论，然而，生活与理论毕竟是不同的。Sebastion，这个敏感的小儿子，调查这个家庭的暴力和流亡历史，更重要的是，改写这个家庭的故事。在这本以抒情和散文两种形式写成的著作中，作者将Sebastián的过去和国家的历史以一种巧妙的方式编织在一起……(LYR)

Julián Fuks was born in São Paulo in 1981 and is the son of Argentinian parents. He has worked as a reporter for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and as a reviewer for the magazine Cult. Fuks is the author of several novels and collections of short stories and his work has been shortlisted for several prestigious prizes, includingthe Telecom Award, the Jabuti Award and the São Paulo Prize for Literature.

Adapting to the slow pace of a resort town in low season, he begins to unravel the past, accompanied by his dead father’s dog and an unlikely Buddhist. In the midst of romantic flings and occasional trips, he comes to discover more than he could ever have imagined – not just about his grandfather, but also about himself.

BLOOD-SOAKED BEARD explores the growing tension between the apparently peaceful exterior world and the exuberant inner world of the characters. As in Daniel Galera’s previous works, the characters are torn between the quest for a second chance and the impossibility of genuine redemption. A subtle, wonderfully assured novel by one of Brazil’s most promising young writers.

住了一段時間後，他就適應了度假村式的慢速生活，追憶了過去父親與一隻狗和一位佛教徒一同度過的生活。在浪漫嘻戲和遊玩中，他悟出了更多道理，不只是他祖父的生活，更關於他自己。

《沾血的鬍鬚》探討了表面上平靜的外部世界和人們豐富內心世界之間越來越緊張的關係。Daniel Galera過去的作品中的人物就被兩股力量撕扯著，一方面想要爭取第二次機會，另一方面人又很难赎罪。這種矛盾依然出現在這本新書中。

Daniel Galera was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. He wrote and edited literary websites, was one of the founders of an influential independent publishing house, Livros do Mal, and has translated Hunter S. Thompson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh into Brazilian Portuguese. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, two of which (including HORSE HANDS) have been shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize.

His most recent project is the highly acclaimed graphic novel CACHALOTE, in association with Rafael Coutinho. His novel CORDILLERA is due to be adapted for the cinema in 2012.

The way the author weaves his plot full of secrets and twists, establishing unexpected relations between disparate facts, is one of this book’s major triumphs. As such, a sandwich eaten in a school playground conjures up the war and the gas chambers; a drawing on a crumpled page links to a suicide; someone’s first dip in a swimming pool announces “the end of things (…), the routine that imposes itself upon them”. In a prose that oscillates between violence, lyricism and irony, with pauses for a near-documental neutrality in the description of smells, tastes, sounds, colors, facts and feelings, Diary of a Fall is a kind of response to those questions, at once simple and complex, that will always occupy the mind of a child surveying the tragedy and comedy of his forebears’ lives: why is the world the way it is? Why do people like or dislike one another? How do people become who they are?

本書的特點是，作者用獨特的方式編織著秘密和曲折，揭露了世間每個微小事務之間的聯繫如蝴蝶效應般相連。比如，在操場上吃掉的三明治挑起了一場戰爭，促使毒氣室的出現；畫在皺巴巴紙頭上的畫和一個人的自殺有關；某人在游泳池裡的第一跳宣佈了某件事務的終結。

《秋天日記》在暴力、詩意和譏諷之間擺動徘徊，對於觸覺、聽覺、顏色、事實和感情的描寫態度中立，近乎紀實的描寫，是對孩子們搜尋前輩經歷時所產生問題的簡單又深刻的回答：這個世界為什麼是這個樣子？為什麼人與人相互仇恨？為什麼人們會變成現在這樣？

他已經贏得了巴西各種文學大獎，比如巴西作家協會頒發的Erico Verissimo/Revelation prize（“啟示獎”），兩次入圍Jabuti and Portugal Telecom awards。他的作品已被譯成義大利語和韓語出版。

Michel Laub was born in Porto Alegre in 1973. A writer and journalist, he has published four novels, all through Companhia das Letras: MúSICA ANTERIOR (ANTERIOR MUSIC), 2001; LONGE DA áGUA (FAR FROM WATER), 2004, also released in Argentina; O SEGUNDO TEMPO (THE SECOND HALF), 2006; and O GATO DIZ ADEUS (CAT’S FAREWELL), 2009. He is a winner of the Erico Verissimo/Revelation prize, conferred by the Brazilian Writers’ Union, and was twice short-listed for the Jabuti and Portugal Telecom awards, among others.

The frightened boys immediately call the police, who harshly interrogate them, treating them more like suspects than as witnesses. The brutality of the murder and complete disregard for human beings shock the boys, who refuse to accept the official explanation of the crime: that her husband – the fragile town dentist, motivated by jealousy – is the culprit. They start to investigate, helped by an old man who lives in a shelter for the elderly. The man was a political prisoner during the Vargas dictatorship and hides the real reason for his interest in the case. His warning to the boys marks the beginning of a whirlwind of surprising events: ‘Nothing is what it seems in this country.’

In no time they realize that the woman has a strange connection with the town’s most important men, and that her past is nebulous, replete with lies. The investigation reveals a perverse scenario, involving sexual violence, racism, corruption and spurious political alliances – in an effort to hold on to power at any cost. All this in 1961 when Brazil is looking forward, well on the way to becoming an industrialised nation. For the boys, it is a harsh and chilling glimpse into the world of adults. A shocking coming of age in early their adolescence.