A collection of short stories whose leitmotiv is human relationships: attraction and rejection, love and hate, illusion and delusion, lust and disgust, hope and despair, joy and sadness in a fleeting game of chance where consciousness is the only rules.

How does one survive the scars of defeat after life do us part?

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​“In these very short stories one is able to recognize themes that are recurrent in all 5 Ana Nobre de Gusmão’s novels: fear, anxiety, love, passion, ageing and death, as part of the broader spectrum of family and social conflicts.” Helena Vasconcelos, storm-magazine.com 2000

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