Book, Moldy Strawberries[LS]

Caio Fernando Abreu's most famous book. Includes unpublished afterword by José Castello. In his most famous work, published in 1982, when he was thirty-four years old, Caio Fernando Abreu makes every page overflow with anguish, unrest and the confessional style that consolidated him as one of the most combative and radical voices of his time. The visceral prose of the eighteen short stories in Morangos moldados — enhanced by the collective hesitation of a country that envisioned redemocratization in the face of the incipient bankruptcy of the military regime — translated the deepest human inconstancies and continues, even today, captivating readers of all generations. For José Castello, who writes the afterword to this edition, although it is a book of short narratives, “the work maintains an iron unity, around the courage to undress, the fidelity to the most intimate and even the most terrible feelings, and also to the difficulty of being.”