{"title":"Raduan Nassar","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"lavoura-arcaica","title":"Archaic Farming","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"529\"\u003eDo not expect a romance. A pagan ritual. An implosion of the family model. An affront to Christian morality. An ode to the inevitable. A prodigal son, feverish with desire, guilt, rebellion. Do not expect simplicity. Tradition suffocates, love chokes, the father commands with a divine hand, the mother is the silence that consents to the order of sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1060\"\u003eA vertigo cut through by biblical, delirious images. And a lyricism that approaches the profane as much as the sacred. Or what there is of one in the other. Dense as wet earth, impregnated with blood, sweat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1060\"\u003eThis is not about running away from home. It is about order and what it represents. And about its end. Tragic in the literary sense of the word. The relationship with his sister Ana. The taboo laid bare from the very first lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1060\"\u003eDo not expect, at any moment, any kind of consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1462\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"971\" data-start=\"954\"\u003eRaduan Nassar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, born in 1935, was never the writer that critics love to applaud. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he abandoned literature to devote himself to agriculture. Only three published works - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"1110\" data-start=\"1093\"\u003eLavoura Arcaica,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-is-only-node=\"\" data-end=\"1132\" data-start=\"1113\"\u003eUm Copo de Cólera, Menina a Caminho.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Unavoidable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maldita Livraria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51153161879818,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/image_cdcbf2d3-5024-4d64-ac42-7ca045e5d923.jpg?v=1746711520"},{"product_id":"um-copo-de-colera","title":"A Cup of Cholera","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"551\" class=\"\"\u003eHand-to-hand combat, without half-measures or niceties. Between desire and fury. Between language and violence. No more romantic illusion of love. Only the raw lining that sustains the coexistence of two beings, who desire each other as much as they repel each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"551\" class=\"\"\u003eA house in the country. A man. A woman.\u003cbr\u003eA night of sex, a morning of rage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"952\" class=\"\"\u003eThe entire text is a dance of words with daggers drawn. Ideology, class resentment, sexual frustration and ego confront each other without any hope of returning alive. Feverish, almost delirious, without a safety net, incendiary, with sentences that seem not to want to end, as if the text itself were on the verge of collapse. Or orgasm. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"952\" class=\"\"\u003eThis book is a risk. \u003cbr\u003eLike those left by the plough in dry earth. \u003cbr\u003eFurrowed, scored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"1433\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"971\"\u003eRaduan Nassar\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in 1935, was never the writer that critics love to applaud. Son of Lebanese immigrants, he abandoned literature to devote himself to agriculture, with only three published works - \u003cem data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1110\"\u003eLavoura Arcaica,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1132\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eUm Copo de Cólera, Menina a Caminho.\u003c\/em\u003e Unavoidable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51203254288650,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/9444775SAM_4910.jpg?v=1747396069"},{"product_id":"menina-a-caminho","title":"Girl on her way","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"522\"\u003eStory. Short. Incisive. A whisper. It carries the cruel precision of one who knows that every word cuts. A poor girl, sent by her parents to the city in search of a better future. But it is not the future. It is a trap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"522\"\u003eHelpless, you will watch this journey, like one watches an animal, left to its own fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eWhat remains is not what is said. It is what is left unsaid. That which is guessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eThe silence is brutal. Every omission, an indictment. Every pause, a cry. The tone is almost biblical, of an absurd violence, veiled as normality. There is no mercy or comfort. Only a path. And a \"girl\" delivered as an offering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eAn unyielding critique of family passivity, of misery, of the society that normalizes the sacrifice of the most vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1445\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"971\"\u003eRaduan Nassar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, born in 1935, was never the writer that critics love to applaud. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he abandoned literature to devote himself to agriculture. 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