The sausages are all for roasting

One of the author's earliest books and a rare literary object, both for its physical scarcity and the singular power of its writing.

Published in 2002, the book brings together a collection of stories depicting marginalized characters trapped in absurd, precarious, or grotesquely banal situations, always with an irony that borders on tenderness and a humor that conceals a deep melancholy.

Ricardo Adolfo explores the fractures of everyday life with direct, oral language, free from pretension, where the comic and the tragic coexist without hierarchy. Through episodes that seem trivial, the author presents an incisive portrait of contemporary loneliness, of small defeats, and of the illusions that sustain ordinary life.

The embryo of the style that would later mature in his novels. A writing attentive to human detail, to the absurdity of reality, and to the fragile dignity of those who insist on carrying on.

Ricardo Adolfo (b. 1974) was born in Luanda and grew up in Lisbon. He is a novelist, scriptwriter, and advertising copywriter. He lived between Amsterdam and Tokyo, geographies that are reflected in the cosmopolitan and ironic tone of his writing. His work is distinguished by a lively language, by characters who move on the margins, and by a subtle critique of the illusions of urban and contemporary life. Adolfo writes with humor, but without complacency: he uses the absurd to illuminate reality. Between bewilderment and lucidity, he has become one of the most original voices in contemporary Portuguese fiction.