Luz Indecisa, Efeito Borboleta e Outras Histórias

Could a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon cause a tornado in Texas? Yes, but also an earthquake in Greenland, a traffic jam on the IC-19 highway, or the total paralysis of a man very aware of his actions. The complexity of the world is made up of thousands of causes and consequences, fabulous coincidences, designs that emerge from chaos, invisible webs that unite people, facts, and stories seemingly without any connection to each other. José Mário Silva's very short stories seek to reflect this complexity in a few pages or in just one sentence, pushing the spirit of synthesis and stylistic refinement to the limit. In these narratives, there is everything: dreams, revenge, melancholy, betrayals, fateful loves (many), happy loves (few), secrets, epiphanies, pastiches, tributes, anxieties, meta-literary games, musical moments, classical prose, lyricism, plus, 64 pages of poems about eras, cities, feelings, and emotions.