As Crónicas by António Lobo Antunes

A collection of brief chronicles that transform everyday life into luminous, bittersweet vignettes, blending memory, irony, and tenderness. Moving between Lisbon’s streets, family kitchens, hospital wards, and echoes of colonial war, the pieces meditate on aging, love, loss, and the absurdities of politics and bureaucracy. With lyrical, fragmentary prose and dark humor, the narratives slip between past and present, revealing fragile identities and the persistence of desire, grief, and hope in ordinary moments.