Libros de Literatura en otros idiomas, página 132 de 8408

A resistência de Maria da Graça e de Quitéria, duas mulheres-a-dias e carpideiras profissionais que, a braços com desilusões e desconfianças várias acerca dos homens, acabam por cair de amores quando menos esperam. Com isso, mudam radicalmente o que pensam e querem da vida. Este é um romance sobre a força do amor e como ela se impõe igual a uma inteligência para salvar as personagens das suas condições de desfavor social e laboral. Passado na recôndita cidade de Bragança, este livro é um elogio à força dos que sobrevivem, dos que trabalham no limiar da dignidade e, ainda assim, descobrem caminhos menos óbvios para a mais pura felicidade.

The Hostage Police officer Helen Weeks walks into her local newsagent's on her way to work Little does she know that this simple daily ritual will change her life forever It's the last place she expects to be met with violence, but as she waits innocently at the till, she comes face to face with a gunman...

Leonid McGill can't say no to the beautiful woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash and a story. She's married to a rich art collector. Now she fears for her life. Leonid knows better than to believe her, but he can't afford to turn her away, even if he knows this woman's tale will bring him straight to death's door.

In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. "If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre's latest thriller". (Evening Standard). "Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance". (Sunday Times). John le Carre was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. His most recent novel, A Delicate Truth, is also published by Penguin. He divides his time between London and Cornwall.