Rui Zink - A Instalação do Medo

"By infantilizing us, madam, fear doesn't diminish us, but elevates us. Fear returns us to the childhood of the world." The doorbell rings. The woman hides her son in the bathroom and goes to open the door. What if fear were a service, for the good of the country and progress, delivered to your home? Fulfilling the decree-law to install fear in every home as quickly as possible, two technicians enter. Carlos, the smooth talker, and Sousa, with a grim expression and sweet voice, discuss a wide range of topics, from unemployment to diseases and pandemics, from market convulsions and interest rates to violence and terrorism, creating an atmosphere of growing tension.

In a renewed edition, and in his irreverent and biting tone, Rui Zink summons in each reader the urgency of courage – the kind that guides a mother's heart. Winner of the prestigious Utopiales prize for best foreign novel, The Installation of Fear is a remarkable work written in favor of the future.