All The Days Of The Week - Paperback

by Angela Dutra de Menezes (Author)

The traveling salesman Waldemar Piraí Lopes de Souza is devoted to his family duties but only comes home on Wednesdays. What mystery does he hide? All that John, a commercial pilot, can think about is his wife's afternoons of "sex", doubting her fidelity. Goodnatured, smart, critical and with the right seasoning of nonsense, All The Days Of The Week contains seven stories, one for each day of the week. The author has the magic touch of humor, characters who seem to come from somewhere in the childhood of memories; the domestic universe, the infinite possibilities that fit within such limited lives, secrets, quirks, obsessions, dangerous reflections and ambiguities are the ingredients in this precise recipe where humor is never overdone.

Author Biography

Angela Dutra de Menezes is a Brazilian writer and journalist. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, where she still lives. She worked at O Globo and on the weekly magazine Veja. She wrote A Thousand Years Minus Fifty (1995), Saint Sofia (1997)-considered in Spain one of the 5 best novels of the year 1997-The Other Side Of The Picture (1998) and The Book of Apocalypses According To A Witness (2001). In 2000 she published the collection of essays The Portuguese That Gaves Us Birth-one of the 10 best books of the year according to O Globo. All The Days Of The Week is her first book of short stories and her first book translated into English. Email: angela.dutra@terra.com.br