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2) Tentacle
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santeria prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean and humanity from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha - a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people - cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds...
Author
Publisher
Livraria Martins Editôra
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Mar Morto é um romance de autoria do escritor brasileiro Jorge Amado, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras, publicado em 1936,[1] 'no começo de carreira quando tinha apenas 24 anos. Já era íntimo da alma do mar, com seus mistérios e sortilégios, segredos e encantamentos, crenças e superstições.' Enredo O livro trata, 'com uma prosa poética de ritmo cativante', do nascimento, vida e morte do personagem Guma, que o autor descreve como...
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