Ladies' Handbag and Other Stories

Clara Ferreira Alves's first foray into fiction writing, "Mala de Senhora" (Lady's Handbag), is a collection of short stories. Following a selection of her columns in Expresso ("A Pluma Caprichosa 1", which enjoyed considerable success), and before a promised novel, CFA explores in this book the world around us (social habits, online globalisation, everyday unhappiness) and universal literary themes, such as the inevitability of death. And literature itself. A keen and penetrating, ironic, at times almost cynical, lucid gaze. An "aesthetic vision of the world". Dazzling writing.