Only the truth

The new book by the Jabuti Prize winner with Fernando Pessoa, a quasi-autobiography. In a kind of homage to Pablo Neruda and his Twenty Love Poems and a Desperate Song, the 21 delightful short stories in "Only the Truth" originate from José Paulo Cavalcanti's fascination with human nature. The Sanchos and Quixotes that we are. The deceased who invited friends to her brother's funeral, the woman who dreamed of a kiss, and the mother who decided to die only after burying her son are some of the characters and cases the author witnesses in his law office. True stories, here narrated with the flavor of literary fiction, about the certainty that the truth is often only apparent.