It is a collection of short stories written by Clara Ferreira Alves.
There are 12 stories in the form of tales. It is a collection of texts published by journalist Clara Ferreira Alves and some unreleased that approach the pages of life of a number of characters, fictional or not, that entice the reader. At least it seduced me. Are small stories, with sometimes unexpected end, whose guiding thread are the relationships, or not, that are established between the characters. I liked the uniqueness of this small compilation of short stories, a genre often considered lower in Portugal, but in the background are signs of literature, as the Clara Ferreira Alves preface emphasizes and of which I entirely agree, since I am too a big fan of the genre. I think there are stories that do not need to be 300 pages long to be told well, short stories imply rather a great talent a very concise narrative that also looses the imagination, and may even seen an somewhat poor argument, but let's face it not everything you think, or hear, or witness, should translate into great literary accounts contoured with romance, maybe we can do without in most cases without this weight, whose dignified and eloquent example is this "lady's handbag and other stories". As always I have some favorite stories, but I won't denounce myself I prefer your read this little compendium of human nature beautifully written by this journalist. Good reading.
