Japanese unpublished, Italian literature and totalitarisms in the news of the presence for 2025 – Observer

Unpublished of Japanese literature, Italian novels, works that recall the consequences of Nazism and the search for the control of humanity and new books of Eleness e Nathan Hill These are some highlights of the Editorial Group Presence for 2025.

The wool and steel forestfrom the Japanese writer NATSU MIYASHITAthis month arrives at bookstores, and tells a story, passed in rural Japan, of a boy who reinvents herself after hearing a tuner working on a piano, an experience that plays him deeply.

Another novelty in the presence catalog is the publication for the first time in Portugal of A simple storyfrom Italian Leonardo Sciasciaoriginal 1989, considered an indispensable classic of the twentieth century, in a translation of João Pedro Vala.

In this brief novel by the same author of Owl Daythe writer describes, in a journalistic tone, Sicily of the 1980s through a story with policemen, who portrays the mafia, police, justice and corruption.

In the month of 80 years of the release of the concentration camp and extermination of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the publisher reissues two books that address the theme, from different perspectives.

Reunionfrom the German Fred Uhlmanthe original of 1971, returns to Portuguese bookstores, 37 years after its first publication, and tells the story of a friendship between a Jewish boy and a descendant of an aristocratic rich family on the eve of World War II in 1932 in Germany and the changes that the rise of Nazism brings to each of them, forcing their separation.

The other reprint is the work Unintendedwith direct translation of the Hungarian (by Ernesto Rodrigues), the first and most read Nobel Prize Romance of Literature Imre gardenerAuschwitz’s survivor, a story about life in a concentration camp, through the eyes of a teenage boy, reported by someone who actually lived on the skin.

The public presence is still The invention of love and other poemsa masterpiece of resistance poetry in the middle of Estado Novo, and also the most emblematic poem Daniel Filipein a new edition that marks the centenary of the writer and marks the reunion with a text that was read by several generations, said by Mário Viegasfilmed by António Campos and written by one of the most important voices of Portuguese poetry of the twentieth century.

Still within the registration of oppression, he returns to the bookstores’ escapates, edited by the marker, the romance The century first after Béatriceby the Lebanon-French writer Amin Maaloufwhich explores the consequences of a scientific discovery that allows you to choose the sex of babies, triggering a social imbalance and questioning gender papers, on a journey through a dystopian future, where the search for control over human nature has a high price.

Of the Italian author winner of the Bancarella with The wallet, Francesca giannonea new novel arrives in February, set in Italy from the 1950s-60s, which follows the lives of two brothers, the family ties that unite them and the different journeys that will separate them after the sale of the family business.

Another novelty is the thriller The water graveof Robert Galbraith, pseudonym of JK Rowlingwhich addresses the intricacies of the world of cults, from the history of a boy who becomes a member of a church that appears to be a peaceful organization that fights for a better world but revealed itself a religious worship that hides sinister deaths.

Sociopata – My memories, my story It is the autobiography of Patric winsbook in which the American author-diagnosed as sociopath and who would later become therapist with specialization in this area-focuses on her experiences and perceptions, from a childhood where she did not feel emotions, such as fear, guilt, remorse or empathy even identifying your problem and self -discovery and personal growth.

March is the month in which the first time publishes in Portugal the Japanese writer Seicho matsumoto (1909-1992), com Tokyo Expressone of the great classics of Japanese literature, considered as his masterpiece, “which joins the best of the noir With the obsessive charm of a meticulous writing, in which each detail has the right measure, ”according to the publisher.

In the same month they are still published Sarah Leroy’s disappearanceof Marie Vareillea romance that explores topics such as feminism, friendship, love and the search for a purpose, as well as No one can knowof McGoan Clairea psychological thriller that plunges into the complexities of friendship, secrets and betrayal.

The next two months are marked by the publication of two new novels by young Portuguese authors: SILencio In the heart of birdsthe story of a marriage that will be, of Lénia rufinoand another still without title of Rita da Novawhich brings a family history about the bonds that unite, besides the blood, both edited by the manuscript.

Anticipating some news from the second quarter, the presence will publish the work of nonfiction Equality: what it is and why it is so importantof Thomas Piketty e Michael J. Sandeltwo of the most influential thinkers today.

In the field of fiction, they will be published Wellnessaccording to North American novel Nathan Hillwhich achieved great success with NIXa work that raised him to the category of one of the most promising contemporary novelists; and There Are Rivers in The Skyfrom the Turkish writer Elenessa story that will drink to the most amazing legends and narratives of ancient Mesopotamia.