Mourning the Happiness of the Portuguese People

Ironic, as we know, and true (that too we know). Amidst the games of affections and disaffections, of conjugality and the gentle madness of this stunned seaside people, Rui Zink fights seriously against the death of our capacity to think and to laugh at ourselves and our little lives.

Here is a book that brings together short texts, some of the most emblematic he has written, and always, always, alongside the people.

Rui Zink, born in Lisbon in 1961, is one of the most singular voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. Writer, teacher, and intellectual provocateur, he has built a body of work marked by irony, social criticism, and the rare ability to transform the everyday into revealing absurdity.

In books such as O Destino Turístico, A Instalação do medo, or Hotel Lusitano, he explores the tension between fantasy and reality: humor as a sharp form of thought.