Chico Buarque - Anos de Chumbo e Outros Contos

Immersed in the very particular atmosphere of Chico Buarque's fiction - characterised by his shrewd powers of observation and the contrast between the lyrical and the comic - the short stories that make up this volume illustrate the sordidness and pathetic nature of the human condition.

There are eight narratives in which sex, perversity, despondency and delirium make up a surprising labyrinth of intersecting lives. The author's impressive command of language is put at the service of concise form and a denunciation of the barbarity of the present: Chico Buarque's debut short story is breathtaking.