Flores

One man is crushed by every human disaster he reads about in the newspaper, and one day realises he has forgotten kissing for the first time, kicking a ball about as a village boy and the first time he saw a woman undressed. His neighbour, by contrast, takes the world's misfortunes in his stride but comes undone at the sight of a hat put down in the wrong place. Perhaps because he still remembers the wonder of that first kiss, and sees how far his own life has strayed from it, the neighbour resolves to help him recover everything he has lost, in a book about remembering and about what love must be to deserve its name.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

275 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2015 by Companhia das Letras

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789898775733 (original)