Traduções Literárias | As histórias das Pessoas Desaparecidas da Gronelândia
Finding a missing person is challenging in any part of the world, but in Greenland it gets even harder due to the weather conditions and the harsh terrain. After living seven years in Greenland, Christoffer Petersen is now writing fictional stories about the country and, in this series, he mixes specific cultural beliefs and practical police procedures to make the reader guess about what is going to happen next in the story and how Petra Jensen is going to solve the puzzle. Now, also in Portuguese.
Encontrar uma pessoa desaparecida é desafiante em qualquer parte do mundo, mas na Gronelândia é ainda mais difícil devido às condições climatéricas e ao terreno inóspito. Depois de viver sete anos na Gronelândia, Christoffer Petersen escreve histórias ficcionais sobre o país e, nesta série, mistura crenças culturais específicas com procedimentos policiais práticos para deixar o leitor sem saber o que vai acontecer a seguir e nem como Petra Jensen irá resolver o enigma. Agora, também em português.
LIVRO 1: “O Rapaz com o Dente de Narval” [BOOK 1: “The Boy with the Narwhal Tooth”]
A boy is missing and it is up to Petra Jensen to find him. She has just finished academy and her dream career is nothing like she thought it would be… until she answered that phone call. When she flies north to talk to the man on the phone she thinks she will be back on the same day… but no. She meets intriguing people who tell her stories that take her on a journey that could change her life. Desapareceu um menino e cabe a Petra Jensen encontrá-lo. Ela acabou de terminar a academia e a carreira de sonho dela não é nada do que pensava que iria ser… até atender aquela chamada telefónica. Quando viaja para o norte para falar com o homem que lhe ligou, pensava que regressaria no mesmo dia… mas não. Ela conhece pessoas intrigantes que lhe contam histórias que a levam numa viagem que pode mudar-lhe a vida.
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LIVRO 2: “A Rapariga que Falava como um Corvo” [BOOK 2: “The Girl with the Raven Tongue”]
A girl is missing, but not even the military air planes are able to find her. Due to a random encounter, Petra finds that the girl in question is very special and she has a special connection with the ravens… with tragic consequences. Petra is put on the case as a last resource. Uma menina está desaparecida, mas nem mesmo os aviões militares conseguem encontrá-la. Por causa de um encontro fortuito, Petra descobre que a menina em questão é muito especial e que tem uma ligação especial com os corvos… com consequências trágicas. Petra fica encarregue do caso como último recurso.
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LIVRO 3: “O Arrepio no Ártico” [BOOK 3: “The Shiver in the Arctic”]
Petra is trapped in a remote location due to a huge storm and a group of Americans are the only people at the hotel besides her. They are there because they want to find out what happened with a friend of theirs who got missing on a night like that. Petra isn’t sure if she should help them with the “investigation”, but she turns it into a little game to pass the time… until everything gets too real. Petra está restida num local remoto por causa de uma enorme tempestade e um grupo de americanos são os únicos no hotel para além dela. Eles estão lá porque querem saber o que aconteceu com um amigo deles que desapareceu numa noite como aquela. Petra não tem a certeza se deveria ajudá-los com a “investigação”, mas torna-a numa espécie de jogo para passar o tempo… até que tudo se torna bastante real.
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BOOK 1: “The Tapestry Bag”
BOOK 2: “Lost Property”
BOOK 3: “The Invisible Case”
BOOK 1: “The Ice Star”
BOOK 2: “In the Shadow of the Mountain”
BOOK 3: “The Shaman’s House”
BOOK 1: “In Strange Hands and The Frenchman”
BOOK 2: “At All Costs”
BOOK 3: “We Shall Be Monsters”
BOOK 4: “Inside the Bear’s Cage”
Ms Clara Smartest began the session summarizing the story of the book: “The author tells the story through the letters that are being exchanged between the main character, Juliet Ashton, and the other characters. Juliet is a writer and, naturally, she loves books. She is on a book tour when she receives a letter from a man living in one of the islands of the English Channel. He is contacting her about a book that used to belong to her. Conversation gets going and Juliet learns about an intriguing book club created unexpectedly during the Second World War. The letters are exchanged shortly after the war has ended and emotions are still running high.”
In the Middle Ages, Friar William of Baskerville arrives at an Abbey to address a matter related to a dispute within the Catholic Church. Shortly after, dead bodies start to surface in a very sudden and mysterious way and soon it becomes clear that those friars were murdered. A serial killer is on the loose and William of Baskerville is put in charge of the investigation. He can only count on his analysis and deduction skills, and the help of Adso of Melk, a novice travelling with him.
Harry Quebert was Marcus Goldman’s mentor when Marcus Goldman was a student and an aspiring writer. Harry Quebert had become a great writer, not in the most honest way, as we learn in the book “The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair”. The mentorship gave rise to a good friendship, but the friendship came to an end due to the “Affair”. At the beginning of the “Affair” book, Marcus Goldman has a writer’s block and goes to visit Harry Quebert in his house by the beach in search of help. He is under pressure from the publisher to write a second book and he has no ideas. Witnessing first hand all events that led to Harry Quebert’s downfall, he reluctantly writes the book about the crime investigation that took place.
London is the stage of all the action. Strike’s office is located in the trendy Soho, at the heart of the city. On the same day, the brother of his childhood, and dead, best friend knocks on the door to ask him to investigate the murder of his sister, which was ruled a suicide. The case has nowhere to go, but the client promises him a lot of money, enough money to pay Strike’s debt and the one-week salary of his new employee. He reluctantly accepts the case and heads to Mayfair, the city’s poshest borough, where the wealthiest people in the country, and maybe in the world, live.
Grenouille has no body smell and, because of that, he is feared. People are not afraid of him, they just feel he is different in a completely and unbeknownst way and just keep their distance. No one knows, except Grenouille himself, that he has an enormous gift: he can smell and precisely categorise all the smells (good and bad) in the world. He can also detect the tiniest fragrance that has travelled from far away. For Grenouille, who has no moral values, only this gift matters. So, killing to acquire the body smell of a particular person is just a collection method, nothing more.
You do not just read James Joyce; you become an Irish person that participates in the narrative.
Robert Graves was a poet and a writer. He also translated classic works and was a professor at the University of Oxford. His book “I, Claudius” was his most successful novel. It was written as it was Claudius himself writing it and it tells the story of the Roman Empire through his eyes, from his childhood to when he took office as Caesar. The events described were real, but the way they happened is fictional and myths and rumours were taken as real events. Assassinations, murders disguised as accidents, betrayals, conspiracies, and dubious and complicated family connections were hallmarks of the Roman Empire. You can find them all in this book, abundantly. When reading it, you feel like you are actually living in those times.
After being postponed due to the strike of writers and actors in the USA, “Dune: Part Two” will finally open in theatres around the world this month. Both Part One and Part Two were adapted from the first book of the series “Dune”, which is the name of the first book.
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