Timeless literature that has shaped generations of readers.
Clarice Lispector · 2015
A major collection gathering Clarice's short fiction across decades, from early experiments to mature stories of domestic revelation and inner shock.
Machado de Assis · 1908
Machado's final novel takes the form of a diary, observing affection, aging, diplomacy, and emotional restraint with quiet precision.
Machado de Assis · 1899
Bentinho tells the story of his love for Capitu, but his jealousy and narrative control make every memory unstable.
Machado de Assis · 1904
Twin brothers embody rivalry, politics, and divided futures in a novel shaped by irony, observation, and national transition.
Clarice Lispector · 1943
Clarice's debut follows Joana's interior life in language that feels restless, intimate, and radically alive.
Machado de Assis · 1891
Rubião inherits a fortune and a philosophy, then enters a world of manipulation, vanity, and social performance.
Machado de Assis · 1882
A brilliant doctor opens an asylum and begins classifying sanity and madness in ways that turn an entire town into a satire of authority.
Margaret Atwood · 1969
Margaret Atwood's debut novel follows Marian McAlpin, a young woman whose ordinary life begins to feel strangely unstable as marriage, work, identity, and appetite close in around her.
Clarice Lispector · 1977
Macabéa, a poor typist from Brazil's Northeast, is narrated by a male writer who cannot escape the ethical discomfort of telling her story.
Clarice Lispector · 1964
A woman enters a maid's room, encounters a cockroach, and experiences a terrifying philosophical and spiritual dissolution of the self.
Margaret Atwood · 2005
Atwood retells the story of Penelope from The Odyssey , giving voice to the famous waiting wife and the twelve maids whose deaths haunt the myth.
Machado de Assis · 1881
A dead narrator writes his memoirs with wit, vanity, cruelty, and astonishing freedom, turning the novel itself into a game with the reader.
