Spiders

Brimming with interpretative possibilities, this book is compelling proof that literature is a game. With sarcastic erudition and imagination as extraordinary as it is rigorous, the book brings together dozens of short stories revolving around these eight-legged arthropods. They emerge as characters or, through their appearance or name, inspire behaviors and destinies, creating a kind of narrative web—where everything ultimately intertwines and entangles us. Author of the bestseller *As fantasias eletivas* (The Elective Fantasies), Carlos Henrique Schroeder once again proves himself one of Brazil's most inventive writers, delivering a kind of social tour de force to address themes such as prejudice, love, death, envy, and our absolute lack of understanding of what it means to be human.