Jose, un jeune angolais issu d'une famille aisee, part faire son doctorat en France. Il quitte sans peine Luanda, sa ville natale, en ignorant que sa derniere journee dans la capitale angolaise et son sejour en France seront marques par des moments et des rencontres qui bouleverseront a jamais le fil de sa vie.
De Luanda a Paris, avec un humour image, des personnages et des dialogues vivants, ce recit plonge le lecteur dans l'univers des couples mixtes, dans les tribulations de l'immigration et dans la complexite des rapports humains. Doubles faces est un recit social qui invalide des...

O Perfume da Mentira e um livro de catorze contos interligados que se desenrolam em duas aldeias carismaticas de Portugal podendo mesmo ser lido como um romance em retalhos. Os personagens que povoam este livro vivem numa prosa lirica e reminiscente de Marquez, Fuentes e Bowles. Um livro concebido com a eloquencia de um verdadeiro contador de historias. O Perfume da Mentira, (...) marca a estreia de um escritor notavel. - Toronto Star Com este livro de contos interligados, paulo da costa adiciona um novo tempero picante ao caldo da literatura canadiana. - The Globe and Mail O Perfume da...

This bilingual anthology of fifty one poems selected from Judice's extensive poetic opus covers the years of 1967 to 2005 and contains the original Portuguese poems face a face with their English translations. Although his works have been translated into twelve languages in twenty countries, Judice's poetry is underrepresented in the English language. At present, this anthology stands as the only book of his poetry available in the English language. The extended, contemplative tone in many of Judice's poems, his unhurried meditation on the subject at hand will appeal to the reader who seeks...

For those who believe the book is obsolete and has been overtaken by other cultural platforms and technologies in our increasingly fast-moving times, I remind myself that the book is a marker of sanity for the human spirit. It will always be a measure of how far we humans have fallen off our cultural and spiritual balance. The book is an intimate match to the rhythm of our consciousness, our state of being present in the world, our hunger to see and be seen, to hear and be heard.