{"title":"Ricardo Adolfo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born in Luanda and grew up in Lisbon. He is a novelist, screenwriter and advertising creative, and has lived between Amsterdam and Tokyo, geographies reflected in the cosmopolitan, ironic tone of his writing. His work stands out for its lively language, for characters who move on the margins and for a subtle critique of the illusions of contemporary urban life. Adolfo writes with humour, but without complacency: he uses the absurd to shed light on the real. Between bewilderment and lucidity, he has become one of the most original voices in Portuguese fiction today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mize-antes-galderia-do-que-normal-e-remediada","title":"Mizé - more of a rough guide than a complete and polished one","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eWhen romance loses its head and walks straight into a minefield. Published in 2006, it throws us into the life of an insolent woman (Mizé). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eMizé is \"frog-mouthed\", a body on fire, sharp-tongued, and permanently refuses to be tamed. Good intentions never got anyone anywhere. To get there (somewhere), you have to tear through the farce of normality, expose the grotesque and funny side of everyday life, have the courage to be vulgar when everyone pretends to be sophisticated: pimba music at full volume, Lazer shows in a provincial nightclub, messy makeup. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eLike someone throwing grenades in a tea room. \u003cbr\u003eSeen from here, it's beautiful! And rare in Portuguese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eIn cinema, we owe her \"São Jorge\". On television we owe her \"Sara\". And when I say \"we owe her\", I mean it literally. We should make her a transfer as a thank you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1462\" data-start=\"970\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974) \u003c\/strong\u003egrew up in Lisbon, but has been living between Amsterdam and Tokyo, collecting geographies that contaminate his writing. He is a novelist, screenwriter, and advertising man, and in everything he does you can see the same impulse: to provoke, to dismantle discourses, to expose the ridiculous where it is least expected. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51842208465162,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/mize-antes-galderia-do-que-normal-e-remediadaAL41774-scaled_04e66c1c-b1c8-476b-8563-fa4d36622cd3.webp?v=1758824079"},{"product_id":"maria-dos-canos-serrados","title":"Maria of the Sawed Pipes","description":"\u003cp\u003eA shot fired at point-blank range. Published in 2007, the book follows the escape of an unlikely couple: Maria and her partner in crime – through a Portugal that rarely appears on postcards. There is no fado or saudade here: there is gasoline, violence, sex, black humour. Maria, a contemporary anti-heroine, trades the quiet fate of many “Marias” for risk, excess and disorder. A literary pulp road movie in which the action never lets up and the language delights in flouting every convention. Over-the-top, ironic, provocative, it burns like a fuse and begs to be read aloud, with laughter. Too absurd to be taken seriously. Seriously? Have you really looked around?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003egrew up in Lisbon, but has lived between Amsterdam and Tokyo, collecting geographies that colour his writing. He is a novelist, screenwriter and advertising copywriter, and in everything he does you can see the same impulse: to provoke, to dismantle discourses, to expose the ridiculous where it is least expected. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn cinema, we owe him \"São Jorge\". On television, we owe him \"Sara\". And when I say \"we owe him\", I mean it literally. We should make him a transfer to thank him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51865878659338,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/OIP_197a0d1c-1561-4f0a-af06-983552f3f3dd.webp?v=1759145581"},{"product_id":"depois-de-morrer-aconteceram-me-muitas-coisas","title":"After I died, many things happened to me","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"1001\" data-start=\"0\"\u003ePublished in 2009, the book follows a man who, after dying, continues to live—or something close to it—in an everyday existence that blends the absurd, the comic, and the tragic. Here, death is neither an end nor a transcendence; it is a disconcerting extension of life, with all its confusion and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1001\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eRicardo Adolfo transforms a universal theme into a deeply contemporary experience: the feeling of living in a world where everything seems post-life, depersonalized, saturated, and directionless. The fragmented, darkly humorous narrative exposes the banality of everyday life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1001\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eThe author dismantles the idea of redemption, rejects sentimentality, and reveals the grotesque hidden in small routines. \u003cem data-end=\"864\" data-start=\"817\"\u003eAfter I Died, a Lot of Things Happened\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about the absurdity of modern existence, where dying may be just another way of continuing to live without knowing why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974) \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Luanda and grew up in Lisbon. He is a novelist, screenwriter, and advertising copywriter, and has lived between Amsterdam and Tokyo, geographies reflected in the cosmopolitan and ironic tone of his writing. His work is distinguished by its vivid language, characters who move on the margins, and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51914951786762,"sku":null,"price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/depois-de-morrer-aconteceram-me-muitas-coisasCL33351-scaled.webp?v=1760005082"},{"product_id":"os-chouricos-sao-todos-para-assar","title":"The sausages are all for roasting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__description rte quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003eOne of the author's earliest books and a rare literary object, both for its physical scarcity and the singular power of its writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003eRicardo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp data-end=\"1561\" data-start=\"1003\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo (b. 1974)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ewas 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. 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A Portuguese man married to a Japanese woman, he takes on the role of “foreigner” in a society where integration is complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on chronicles originally published in \u003cem\u003eSábado\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, he reveals, with humor and a critical eye, the rituals, rules, and paradoxes of Japanese urban life. From \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanami\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ehanami \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eto corporate drinking bouts, passing through workers' lunch boxes and the “rental friends” business, each episode is a window into Japanese normality, filtered through the bewilderment of an outside observer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reflection on identity, displacement, and adaptation, where humor serves as a shield against the discomfort of difference. Speaking of emigration...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Adolfo \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Luanda in 1974 and has lived in various places, including Lisbon, Macau, London, and Amsterdam. He currently resides in Tokyo. With a background in advertising, he is also a screenwriter and author of novels, short stories, and children's literature. His work has been recognized for its originality and its ability to explore themes such as emigration, the periphery, and cultural confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51957597077770,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/toquio-vive-longe-da-terraCL75689-scaled.webp?v=1760632085"},{"product_id":"a-chefe-dos-maus","title":"The boss of the bad guys","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a back alley in Tokyo, the branch of a criminal organisation receives a directive from headquarters to increase diversity at the management level. Everyone resists, except the Big Boss. Realising that if he wants to stay alive he must do as he is told, he promotes his assistant to management trainee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Everyone has a boss who is born to the business. It’s not karma, nor luck, nor misfortune. It’s just the way it is.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoycotted by her colleagues and lacking confidence, the assistant decides to do the impossible to succeed. And, overnight, she is running speakeasies, making difficult demands, and fleecing clients. To her surprise, she discovers that she is excellent at doing evil, but her new ambition may have fatal consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a decade of experience living in Japan, Ricardo Adolfo offers a scathing reflection on contemporary work, the role of women in the corporate hierarchy, and the ethics of immoral companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRicardo Adolfo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Luanda in 1974. He has lived in the suburbs of Lisbon, in Macau, London and Amsterdam. He currently lives in Tokyo. He has published the novels \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMizé – Before the normal and the cured, the shopaholic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria dos Canos Serrados,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the short story collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sausages are all for roasting,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the collection of chronicles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTokyo lives far from Earth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He has also published the children’s books \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe laundry monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinimini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. For film and television, he wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSão Jorge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Yarmouth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e– Temporary Figures,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e all of which have won awards at national and international festivals. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984481353994,"sku":null,"price":18.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/a-chefe-dos-mausCL49268-scaled.webp?v=1761039760"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/collections\/AA1OROaO_263eaa2d-fcde-492a-996d-22792309b11d.png?v=1762177651","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/collections\/ricardo-adolfo.oembed","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}