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100 LIVROS DO ANO 2012 SEGUNDO JORNAL NEW YORK TIMES
FICTION & POETRY
ALIF THE UNSEEN. By G. Willow Wilson. (Grove, $25.) A young hacker on the run in the
Mideast is the protagonist of this imaginative first novel.
ALMOST NEVER. By Daniel Sada. Translated by Katherine
Silver. (Graywolf, paper, $16.) In
this glorious satire of machismo, a Mexican agronomist simultaneously pursues a
prostitute and an upright woman.
AN AMERICAN SPY. By Olen Steinhauer. (Minotaur, $25.99.) In a novel vividly evoking the
multilayered world of espionage, Steinhauer’s hero fights back when his C.I.A.
unit is nearly destroyed.
ARCADIA. By
Lauren Groff. (Voice/Hyperion, $25.99.) Groff’s lush and visual second novel
begins at a rural commune, and links that utopian past to a dystopian,
post-global-warming future.
AT LAST. By
Edward St. Aubyn. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) The final and most meditative of St.
Aubyn’s brilliant Patrick Melrose novels is full of precise observations and
glistening turns of phrase.
BEAUTIFUL RUINS. By Jess Walter. (Harper/HarperCollins,
$25.99.) Walter’s
witty sixth novel, set largely in Hollywood, reveals an American landscape of
vice, addiction, loss and disappointed hopes.
BILLY LYNN’S LONG HALFTIME WALK. By Ben Fountain. (Ecco/HarperCollins,
$25.99.) The
survivors of a fierce firefight in Iraq are whisked stateside for a brief
victory tour in this satirical novel.
BLASPHEMY. By
Sherman Alexie. (Grove, $27.) The
best stories in Alexie’s collection of new and selected works are moving and
funny, bringing together the embittered critic and the yearning dreamer.
THE BOOK OF MISCHIEF: New and Selected Stories. By Steve Stern. (Graywolf, $26.) Jewish immigrant lives observed with
effusive nostalgia.
BRING UP THE BODIES. By Hilary Mantel. (Macrae/Holt, $28.) Mantel’s sequel to “Wolf Hall” traces
the fall of Anne Boleyn, and makes the familiar story fascinating and
suspenseful again.
BUILDING STORIES. By Chris Ware. (Pantheon, $50.) A big, sturdy box containing
hard-bound volumes, pamphlets and a tabloid houses Ware’s demanding, melancholy
and magnificent graphic novel about the inhabitants of a Chicago building.
BY BLOOD. By
Ellen Ullman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) This smart, slippery novel is a
narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on the sessions between the
therapist next door and her patients.
CANADA. By
Richard Ford. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A boy whose parents rob a bank in
Montana in 1960 takes refuge across the border in this mesmerizing novel,
driven by fully realized characters and an accomplished prose style.
CARRY THE ONE. By Carol Anshaw. (Simon & Schuster,
$25.) Anshaw pays
close attention to the lives of a group of friends bound together by a fatal
accident in this wry, humane novel, her fourth.
CITY OF BOHANE. By Kevin Barry. (Graywolf, $25.) Somewhere in Ireland in 2053, people
are haunted by a “lost time,” when something calamitous happened, and hope to
reclaim the past. Barry’s extraordinary, exuberant first novel is full of
inventive language.
COLLECTED POEMS. By Jack Gilbert. (Knopf, $35.) In orderly free verse constructions,
Gilbert deals plainly with grief, love, marriage, betrayal and lust.
DEAR LIFE: Stories. By Alice Munro. (Knopf, $26.95.) This volume offers further proof of
Munro’s mastery, and shows her striking out in the direction of a new, late
style that sums up her whole career.
THE DEVIL IN SILVER. By Victor LaValle. (Spiegel & Grau, $27.) LaValle’s culturally observant third
novel is set in a shabby urban mental hospital.
ENCHANTMENTS. By Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $27.) Harrison’s splendid and surprising
novel of late imperial Russia centers on Rasputin’s daughter Masha and the
hemophiliac czarevitch Alyosha.
FLIGHT BEHAVIOR. By Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper/HarperCollins,
$28.99.) An
Appalachian woman becomes involved in an effort to save monarch butterflies in
this brave and majestic novel.
FOBBIT. By
David Abrams. (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic, paper, $15.) Clerks, cooks and lawyers at a forward
operating base in Iraq populate this first novel.
THE FORGETTING TREE. By Tatjana Soli. (St. Martin’s, $25.99.) In Soli’s haunting second novel, a
mysterious Caribbean woman cares for a cancer patient on an isolated California
ranch.
GATHERING OF WATERS. By Bernice L. McFadden. (Akashic,
$24.95.) Three
generations of black women confront floods and murder in Mississippi.
GODS WITHOUT MEN. By Hari Kunzru. (Knopf, $26.95.) Related stories, spanning centuries
and continents, and all tethered to a desert rock formation, emphasize
interconnectivity across time and space in Kunzru’s relentlessly modern fourth
novel.
HHhH. By
Laurent Binet. Translated by Sam Taylor. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.)This
gripping novel examines both the killing of an SS general in Prague in 1942 and
Binet’s experience in writing about it.
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING. By Dave Eggers. (McSweeney’s, $25.) Eggers’s novel is a haunting and
supremely readable parable of America in the global economy, a nostalgic lament
for a time when life had stakes and people worked with their hands.
HOME. By
Toni Morrison. (Knopf, $24.) A
black Korean War veteran, discharged from an integrated Army into a segregated
homeland, makes a reluctant journey back to Georgia in a novel engaged with
themes that have long haunted Morrison.
HOPE: A TRAGEDY. By Shalom Auslander. (Riverhead, $26.95.) Hilarity alternates with pain in this
novel about a Jewish man seeking peace in upstate New York who discovers Anne
Frank in his attic.
HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? By Sheila Heti. (Holt, $25.) The narrator (also named Sheila) and her friends try
to answer the question in this novel’s title.
IN ONE PERSON. By John Irving. (Simon & Schuster,
$28.) Irving’s
funny, risky new novel about an aspiring writer struggling with his sexuality
examines what happens when we face our desires honestly.
A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME. By Wiley Cash. (Morrow/HarperCollins,
$24.99.) An evil
pastor dominates Cash’s mesmerizing first novel.
MARRIED LOVE: And Other Stories. By Tessa Hadley. (Harper Perennial,
paper, $14.99.) Hadley’s
understatedly beautiful collection is filled with exquisitely calibrated
gradations and expressions of class.
NW. By Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press,
$26.95.) The lives of two friends who grew up in a northwest London
housing project diverge, illuminating questions of race, class, sexual identity
and personal choice, in Smith’s energetic modernist novel.
Previous Years' Lists
ON THE SPECTRUM OF
POSSIBLE DEATHS. By Lucia Perillo. (Copper Canyon, $22.) Taut,
lucid poems filled with complex emotional reflection.
PURE. By Julianna
Baggott. (Grand Central, $25.99.) Children battle for the planet’s
redemption in this precisely written postapocalyptic adventure story.
THE RIGHT-HAND SHORE. By Christopher
Tilghman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) A dark, magisterial
novel set on a Chesapeake Bay estate.
THE ROUND HOUSE. By Louise
Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) In this novel, an American
Indian family faces the ramifications of a vicious crime.
SALVAGE THE BONES. By Jesmyn Ward.
(Bloomsbury, $24.) A pregnant 15-year-old and her family await
Hurricane Katrina in this lushly written novel.
SAN MIGUEL. By T. Coraghessan
Boyle. (Viking, $27.95.) Two utopians from different eras establish
private idylls on California’s desolate Channel Islands; this novel preserves
their tantalizing dreams.
SHINE SHINE SHINE. By Lydia Netzer.
(St. Martin’s, $24.99.) This thought-provoking debut novel presents a
geeky astronaut and his pregnant wife.
SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME. By Natalie
Serber. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24.)The stories in Serber’s first
collection are smart and nuanced.
SILENT HOUSE. By Orhan Pamuk.
Translated by Robert Finn. (Knopf, $26.95.) A family is a microcosm of
a country on the verge of a coup in this intense, foreboding novel, first
published in Turkey in 1983.
THE STARBOARD SEA. By Amber Dermont.
(St. Martin’s, $24.99.) Dermont’s captivating debut novel, whose
narrator is a boarding school student and a sailor, takes pleasure in the sea
and in the exhilarating freedom of being young.
SWEET TOOTH. By Ian McEwan.
(Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $26.95.) The true subject of this smart and
tricky novel, set inside a cold war espionage operation, is the border between
make-believe and reality.
SWIMMING HOME. By Deborah Levy.
(Bloomsbury, paper, $14.) In this spare, disturbing and frequently
funny novel, a troubled young woman tests the marriages of two couples.
TELEGRAPH AVENUE. By Michael
Chabon. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.)Chabon’s rich comic novel about
fathers and sons in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., juggles multiple plots and
mounds of pop culture references in astonishing prose.
THE TESTAMENT OF MARY. By Colm Toibin.
(Scribner, $19.99.) This beautiful work takes power from the surprises
of its language and its almost shocking characterization of Mary, mother of
Jesus.
THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE
HER. By Junot Díaz. (Riverhead, $26.95.) The stories in
this collection are about love, but they’re also about the undertow of family
history and cultural mores, presented in Díaz’s exciting, irresistible and
entertaining prose.
THREE STRONG WOMEN. By Marie NDiaye.
Translated by John Fletcher. (Knopf, $25.95.) In loosely linked
narratives, three women from Senegal struggle with fathers and husbands in
France. This subtle, hypnotic novel won the Prix Goncourt in 2009.
TOBY’S ROOM. By Pat Barker. (Doubleday,
$25.95.) This novel, a sequel to “Life Class,” delves further into the
lives of an English family torn apart by World War I.
WATERGATE. By Thomas Mallon.
(Pantheon, $26.95.) This novelistic reimagining of the “third-rate
burglary” proposes surprising motives for the break-in and the 18-minute gap,
and has a sympathetic Nixon.
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK: Stories.By Nathan Englander.
(Knopf, $24.95.) Englander tackles large questions of morality and
history in a masterly collection that manages to be both insightful and uproarious.
THE YELLOW BIRDS. By Kevin Powers. (Little,
Brown, $24.99.) A young private and his platoon struggle through the
war in Iraq but find no peace at home in this powerful and moving first novel
about the frailty of man and the brutality of war.
NONFICTION
ALL WE KNOW: Three
Lives. By Lisa Cohen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The
vanished world of midcentury upper-class lesbians is portrayed as beguiling,
its inhabitants members of a stylish club.
AMERICAN TAPESTRY: The
Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama. By Rachel L.
Swarns. (Amistad/HarperCollins, $27.99.) A Times reporter’s deeply
researched chronicle of several generations of Mrs. Obama’s family.
AMERICAN TRIUMVIRATE:
Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, and the Modern Age of Golf. By James Dodson.
(Knopf, $28.95.) The author evokes an era when the game was more vivid
and less corporate than it seems now.
ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A
Comic Drama. By Alison Bechdel. (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, $22.) Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores
her troubled relationship with her distant mother.
BARACK OBAMA: The
Story. By David Maraniss. (Simon & Schuster, $32.50.) This
huge and absorbing new biography, full of previously unexplored detail, shows
that Obama’s saga is more surprising and gripping than the version we’re
familiar with.
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL
FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. By Katherine Boo.
(Random House, $27.) This extraordinary moral inquiry into life in an
Indian slum shows the human costs exacted by a brutal social Darwinism.
BELZONI: The Giant
Archaeologists Love to Hate. By Ivor Noël
Hume. (University of Virginia, $34.95.) The fascinating tale of the
19th-century Italian monk, a “notorious tomb robber,” who gathered
archaeological treasures in Egypt while crunching bones underfoot.
THE BLACK COUNT:
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo. By Tom Reiss.
(Crown, $27.) The first Alexandre Dumas, a mixed-race general of the
French Revolution, is the subject of this imaginative biography.
BREASTS: A Natural and
Unnatural History. By Florence Williams. (Norton, $25.95.) Williams’s
environmental call to arms deplores chemicals in breast milk and the vogue for
silicone implants.
COMING APART: The
State of White America, 1960-2010. By Charles
Murray. (Crown Forum, $27.) The author of “The Bell Curve” warns that
the white working class has abandoned the “founding virtues.”
DARWIN’S GHOSTS: The
Secret History of Evolution. By Rebecca Stott.
(Spiegel & Grau, $27.) Stott’s lively, original history of
evolutionary ideas flows easily across continents and centuries.
A DISPOSITION TO BE
RICH: How a Small-Town Preacher’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on
a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States. By Geoffrey C.
Ward. (Knopf, $28.95.) The author’s ancestor was the bane of Ulysses
S. Grant.
FAR FROM THE TREE:
Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. By Andrew
Solomon. (Scribner, $37.50.) This passionate and affecting work about
what it means to be a parent is based on interviews with families of
“exceptional” children.
FLAGRANT CONDUCT. The
Story of Lawrence v. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans. By Dale
Carpenter. (Norton, $29.95.)Carpenter stirringly describes the 2003 Supreme
Court decision that overturned the Texas sodomy law.
THE FOLLY OF FOOLS:
The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. By Robert
Trivers. (Basic Books, $28.) An intriguing argument that deceit is a
beneficial evolutionary “deep feature” of life.
THE GREY ALBUM: On the
Blackness of Blackness. By Kevin Young. (Graywolf, paper, $25.) A
poet’s lively account of the central place of the trickster figure in black
American culture could have been called “How Blacks Invented America.”
HAITI: The Aftershocks
of History. By Laurent Dubois. (Metropolitan/Holt,
$32.)Foreign meddling, the lack of a democratic tradition, a humiliating
American occupation and cold-war support of a brutal dictator all figure in a
scholar’s well-written analysis.
HOW CHILDREN SUCCEED:
Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. By Paul Tough.
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.) Noncognitive skills like persistence
and self-control are more crucial to success than sheer brainpower, Tough
maintains.
HOW MUSIC WORKS. By David Byrne.
(McSweeney’s, $32.) This guidebook also explores the eccentric rock
star’s personal and professional experience.
IRON CURTAIN: The
Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956. By Anne
Applebaum. (Doubleday, $35.) An overwhelming and convincing account of
the Soviet push to colonize Eastern Europe after World War II.
KAYAK MORNING:
Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats. By Roger
Rosenblatt. (Ecco/HarperCollins, paper, $13.99.) This thoughtful
meditation on the evolution of grief over time asks the big questions.
LINCOLN’S CODE: The
Laws of War in American History. By John Fabian
Witt. (Free Press, $32.) A tension between humanitarianism and
righteousness has shaped America’s rules of warfare.
LITTLE AMERICA: The
War Within the War for Afghanistan. By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran. (Knopf, $27.95.) A beautifully written and deeply
reported account of America’s troubled involvement in Afghanistan.
MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED
WOMAN: Enduring Ovarian Cancer. By Susan Gubar.
(Norton, $24.95.) A feminist scholar recounts her experience and
criticizes the medical treatment of a frightening disease in a voice that is
straightforward and incredibly brave.
MY POETS. By Maureen N.
McLane. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Part memoir and part
criticism, this friendly book includes essays on poets canonical and
contemporary, as well as lineated poem-games.
THE OBAMAS. By Jodi Kantor.
(Little, Brown, $29.99.) Michelle Obama sets the tone and tempo of the
current White House, Kantor argues in this admiring account, full of colorful
insider anecdotes.
ODDLY NORMAL: One
Family’s Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality. By John Schwartz.
(Gotham, $26.) A Times reporter’s deeply affecting account of his
son’s coming out also reviews research on the experience of LGBT kids.
ON A FARTHER SHORE:
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson. By William
Souder. (Crown, $30.) An absorbing biography of the pioneering
environmental writer on the 50th anniversary of “Silent Spring.”
ON SAUDI ARABIA: Its
People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines — and Future. By Karen Elliott
House. (Knopf, $28.95.) A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist unveils
this inscrutable country, comparing its calcified regime to the Soviet Union in
its final days.
THE ONE: The Life and
Music of James Brown. By RJ Smith. (Gotham, $27.50.)Smith
argues that Brown was the most significant modern American musician in terms of
style, messaging, rhythm and originality.
THE PASSAGE OF POWER:
The Years of Lyndon Johnson. By Robert A.
Caro. (Knopf, $35.) The fourth volume of Caro’s magisterial work spans
the five years that end shortly after Kennedy’s assassination, as Johnson
prepares to push for a civil rights act.
THE PATRIARCH: The
Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. By David Nasaw.
(Penguin Press, $40.) This riveting history captures the sweep of
Kennedy’s life — as Wall Street speculator, moviemaker, ambassador and dynastic
founder.
PEOPLE WHO EAT
DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of
Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up. By Richard Lloyd
Parry. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, paper, $16.) An evenhanded
investigation of a murder.
RED BRICK, BLACK
MOUNTAIN, WHITE CLAY: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival. By Christopher
Benfey. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) Mixing memoir, family saga,
travelogue and cultural history.
RULE AND RUIN. The
Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party: From
Eisenhower to the Tea Party. By Geoffrey
Kabaservice. (Oxford University, $29.95.) Pragmatic Republicanism was
hardier than we remember, Kabaservice argues.
SAUL STEINBERG: A
Biography. By Deirdre Bair. (Nan A.
Talese/Doubleday, $40.)A gripping and revelatory biography of the eminent
cartoonist.
THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF
EARTH.
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ASSOCIADA DA ARPE-ASSOC.POETAS E ESCRITORES RIO-PRETENSE CIDINHA D'AGOSTINO LANÇOU SEU LIVRO QUINTA-FEIRA DIA 08 DE NOVEMBRO DE 2012 NO HOTEL SAKR PELA EDITORA LUAMAR DE RIO PRETO
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ASSOCIADO DA ARPE-ASSOC. POETAS E ESCRITORES RIO-PRETENSE WALTER ROBERTO MERLOTTO DE RIO PRETO GARANTIU O SEGUNDO LUGAR DO PRÊMIO MUNDIAL DE POESIA NÓSSIDE DA ITÁLIA COM O POEMA INÉDITO "HERANÇA"
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| O funcionário público aposentado Walter Roberto Merlotto, de Rio Preto, garantiu o segundo lugar geral na 28ª edição do Prêmio Mundial de Poesia Nósside, da Itália. Com o poema inédito “Herança”, traduzido para o italiano como “Eredità”, ele garantiu um prêmio de 1 mil euros, além da inclusão do texto na antologia anual do concurso. Em 2008, Vera Márcia Paráboli Milanesi chegou ao mesmo patamar dele, com “Bandeira Brasileira”. “Foi minha primeira participação. Penso que o trabalho agradou por sua sensibilidade”, diz o autor, lembrando que os versos falam sobre alguém que partiu e deixou um vazio no outro. “Herança” deve ser um dos 52 poemas escolhidos para seu quarto livro, “Inoxidável”, a ser lançado em 2013. A obra foi uma das contempladas com o Programa Municipal “Nelson Seixas” de Fomento à Produção Cultural 2012, da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura. A campeã foi a italiana Emilia Fragomeni, com o texto “Orme” (em tradução livre para o português, “pegadas”). A terceira colocação, por sua vez, ficou com o cubano José Aquiles Virelles Rodríguez, com a canção “Guajira del Sol”. Neste ano, além de Merlotto, Rio Preto será representada por Alex Wagner Dias, com a canção “Falando de Amor”, que recebeu menção extraordinária, e Cleone Ribeiro, com o poema “Enigma”, que recebeu uma menção. Dias se inscreveu por Ribeirão Preto, mas hoje mora na cidade. Ao todo, foram inscritos 374 poetas, de 70 países e com expressões em 50 idiomas. Somente do Brasil foram registrados 94 concorrentes. Dos 90 premiados, 18 representam a língua portuguesa, sendo 11 do Brasil, quatro de Moçambique, dois de Portugal e um de Cabo Verde. A cerimônia de premiação deve ser feita no dia 30 de novembro, em Campo Calabro, na Itália. |
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