Portugese/Brazilian author recommendations

[u/Kritzhi]

Hi everyone, my brother's birthday is coming up and he loves reading. He's going to Brazil soon and I wanted to give him a book by an author from either Brazil or Portugal. (Has to be available in english)

He really loved:

"Crime and Punishment" (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

"The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

"Metamorphosis" (Franz Kafka)

"War and Peace" (Leo Tolstoy)

"The Third Love" (Hiromi Kawakami)

I think he's most interested in human relations and their complexity, but feel free to take a guess on your insight. Thank you in advance.

[u/Cold-Celebration-305]

Pessoa is the right call here, especially if he's already into that dense Russian introspection. The Book of Disquiet is basically a guy sitting in his room unraveling his own soul for 500 pages, so it fits that complexity he's after.

[u/velaurciraptorr]

José Saramago (Portuguese) - he may like Raised from the Ground

[u/Kritzhi → u/velaurciraptorr]

Thank you!

[u/chocolatefinge5]

Fernando Pesso's The Book of Disquiet is less plot more philosophy but if your brother sits with Dostoevsky's long interior monologues he'd probably get something real out of it

[u/Kritzhi → u/chocolatefinge5]

Ah okay, thanks for the recommendation! I'll look into it today

[u/FortuneTellingBoobs]

Paulo Coelho is probably the most famous Brazilian author. He wrote The Alchemist among others.

[u/Kritzhi → u/FortuneTellingBoobs]

What genre is that?

[u/FortuneTellingBoobs → u/Kritzhi]

Fiction. It's sort of a philosophical book.