Selection - FNLIJ

Fiction for Young People
Amigagem
Renata Farhat Borges. Illustrations by Silvia Amstalden.
Peirópolis. (unpaged) ISBN 9788575961506
With a well-humored language the author presents a delicate tale
about friendship for readers of all ages, especially teenagers. It
brings the reader the impression of opening a personal clipping
album inviting to look into one’s memories.
Antônio Conselheiro: nem santo, nem pecador
Marcelo Biar. Illustrations by Adir Botelho. Rocco. 78p.
ISBN 9788561384685
This book uses fiction to present the biography of Antonio Vicente
Mendes Maciel, best known in Brazil as Antonio Conselheiro, one
of the most important protagonists of the Canudos War (1896-1897
in the sertão of Bahia (dry interior region of northeastern Brazil).
Was him a Martyr, a crazy person? Who was Antônio Vicente
Mendes Maciel in reality? With strong religious convictions he used
intelligence, generosity and honesty to help the needed people.
Um camponês na capital
Miguel Sanches Neto. Aymará. 84p. ISBN 9788578412173
Using short plots the chronics in this book make us think on the
simplicity of life, bringing the smell of homemade bread, the joy of
digging the wet soil or the taste of mangoes picked off the tree. The
reader is able to live with the author the realities portrayed, the desire
to go back to one’s roots. With more or less intensity, the situations
that give origin to these texts are common to everyone. In every word
or expression there is a souvenir.
O cobrador que lia Heidegger: contos e crônicas
Samir Thomaz. Aymará. 107p. ISBN 9788578412159
This book seems to be a little inventory. In the stories gathered in the
book there is a little of what has been and what could have been. Some
fragments of joy, traces of feelings, and aftertaste of emotion. Sketches,
epiphanies, footprints. Flashes. The father who becomes invisible, the
uncle who does not die, a sentence that wakes us up during the night,
the unexpected daily discoveries, a goldfish in a darkened room, the
anonymous creatures we do not see. It is life seen from the inside and
the same life seen from the enchantment and passion.
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fiction for young people