It is a collection of short stories delightfully written by Antonio Alçada Baptista
The chronicles that flood this book reflect the collective intellectual memory of two countries, Portugal and the author's beloved Brazil. They are the portrait of an era, its players, Antonio Alçada Baptista, through light stories and some even anecdotal that deserve a careful reading. It is a book easy to read, very entertaining, because it speaks of a Portugal, under the perspective of a man who roamed the literature here and in the other side of the Atlantic. Some of the texts contained in this collection had already been published in a women's magazine, however the time leaves no mark in these little stories, quite by the contrary, it makes them even more interesting, thanks to the razor-sharp sense of humor of the writer. I will highlight one of these chronic, very funny, entitled, "lost the covenant." Covers the curious relationship of loyalty among thieves, and that is true story and could only have happened in Portugal, in my humble opinion. Other pearls of this book are his memoirs about some of the personalities of the artistic and literary life of our country and Brazil that reveals so many of the idiosyncrasies of these characters and their way of being in life. And I do not want to seem unfair in relation to any so I won't highlight any, just read them all, you'll see it's no bother, on the contrary, its fun. Good reading.
