It is a book that provides a temporal duality to connect two characters. A novel written in the rapid pace of urban life, increasingly dehumanized, more crowded and more withered of feelings. It is the first edition of a young writer, Pedro Vieira, who portrays the fictional life of people with whom we came cross every day.

There are two parallel establishing a battle between the Romans and the railway line, why?
Because there are a lot of parallels that can be done with that time and the way we live now. I think basically that the behavior they had on society at that time, because there had been reversals in order of the ancient world, have many similarities with our day with the exception of technology, of course. The type of political behavior, social, details of people living in buildings in height, the insulas. Disproportionate growth of the city, immigration in Rome, there are many things similar to us now. Secondly, I looked for a particular episode, that battle was the time when the empire stopped expanding. And stop its grows. From thatr point on  was always going backwards.

The analogy with the current set has something to do with the decline of society?
Not necessarily, I used it because there is a particularly important figure in this episode that was a general of an army that survives the battle, the ambush, but still decides to kill himself because he thinks he failed in what he had set out to do. So the parallel with my female character who loses control of her life and he decides to take her own life.

Somehow reading the book one gets the impression that they are based on people you meat on your daily life, in the train line ...
In some ways yes. There is a direct link, not individually, that is more a mix of the face that I saw. I am a frequenter of public transportation of course. For   circumstances of my professional life and also the place where I live, it's easier to use public transports than by car, and makes even more sense. In particular trains, because there was a time in my life who I used them frequently, is a vivarium for writing, it is very easy to look at people and to create alternative  lives. Guess who they are, what they do every day there, why they leave that station with all those bags, why they are crying on the phone, why all that rachet  with friends. And so for me it's easier, because I write mainly about what I see so there is a load of fiction about it, but it's the universe we live.

I noticed that the characters had nothing to you, of your experience.
No, indeed. What is there much of my in the writting itself. The humor that I use, it’s very much in the book. A person who knows me can minimally identify myself as the narrator of the story perfectly. But in terms of figures of the story I have no connection to then in reality.