Eis alguns livros para os próximos tempos que me entusiasmam!
Enquanto que, em Portugal, Zoran Zivkovic está a ser lentamente publicado pela Cavalo de Ferro (em belíssimas edições), no mundo anglo-saxónico uma nova editora, a Cadmus Press, tem planeada a republicação de todos os seus livros ficcionais (21). O primeiro será The Fiver Wonders of the Danube, previsto para finais de Julho / Agosto. Deixo-vos a capa, bem como a sinopse:
On five bridges over the Danube, five strange and remarkable tales are told: tales of the sacrifices that are made for Art. For the painter, the sculptor, the writer and the composer, creation is inextricably entwined with violence, suffering and the darkest reaches of the psyche, and the bridge to enlightenment is the hardest of all to cross. Yet through the innocence of a dog all can be redeemed, in the miraculous climax of this complex and exotic fable.
Perhaps his finest work to date, The Five Wonders of the Danube is another of his famous “mosaic” novels, cleverly weaving multiple narrative threads into a tapestry of surrealism, reaching a magnificent conclusion in the final tale. Readers eager for more of his unique stories, combining simplicity of language and structure with thought-provoking explorations of life and death and reality will reread this one again and again.
Finalmente com capa para alimentar a expectativa, The Big Book of Science Fiction, organizado por Ann e Jeff Vandermeer, reúne histórias de ficção científica publicadas durante o século XX de 29 países diferentes. Entre os autores encontramos alguns clássicos (se olharem para a capa só encontramos referências sonantes) mas, também, e ainda mais interessante, autores menos conhecidos na publicação anglosaxónica (com autores japoneses, mexicanos, franceses, russos, brasileiros, ucranianos, finlandeses… ). Podem encontrar uma lista completa no iO9.
Quem me conhece sabe que, de há muitos anos, qualquer coisa que venha de Neil Gaiman é de leitura obrigatória. Então uma parceria com Fábio Moon e Gabril Bá para criar uma banda desenhada entra directamente para o topo da lista de futuras aquisições:
Two teenage boys are in for a tremendous shock when they crash a party where the girls are far more than they appear!
Outro autor de leitura obrigatória é Alan Moore, criador de livros como From Hell, V de Vingança (publicado recentemente em português), ou Watchmen. Jerusalem é a sua próxima criação:
n the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening.
An opulent mythology for those without a pot to p*ss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of JERUSALEM tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city.
Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, JERUSALEM is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.
Depois de Locke & Key, Tales from the Darkside é o novo lançamento da parceria Joe Hill e Gabriel Rodriguez. Publicado antes apenas como um conjunto de histórias foi adaptado para banda desenhada:
Joe Hill’s nerve-shredding re-imagining of Tales from the Darkside never made it to your TV set…but the dead are restless and refuse to stay buried! This summer, IDW releases DARKSIDE, a four-issue comic-book adaptation of the episodes written by Hill and illustrated here by Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez! Three stories of the macabre and malevolent! One coulda-been, shoulda-been TV epic on paper with pictures that don’t move! Step out of the warm, sunlit world you think of as reality and get ready to take a chilling walk… on the DARKSIDE.
Depois de ter adorado The Other City e The Golden Age de Michal Ajvaz, ansiava há muito por novo livro. Muitos anos depois (seis parece uma eternidade) eis finalmente novo trabalho do autor:
In a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the object s strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he realizes that it holds the key to uncovering the truth about the recent disappearance of a young girl. His attempts to understand the meaning of the object bring him into contact with an array of characters, and the stories they tell him widen the vortex of uncertainty that the object has opened. Will the increasingly intricate web of clues eventually lead him to the truth? “Empty Streets” is both a thrilling fantasy and a philosophical meditation on the search for meaning in modern life.”
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