The lover is always the last to know

Teresa, a strong and powerful woman, goes to Japan in search of her long-lost son. Tano, the young man's martial arts teacher and mentor, is forced to accompany her, reluctantly returning to the homeland he has not visited in many years. Two people from two cultural worlds that seem very far apart, but which, in the end, have more in common than we might think.

A story of missed connections and the possibility of happy encounters, O amante é sempre o último a saber speaks to us of a changing world, where love takes on new qualities and hope really is the last thing to die.

Three years after O Destino Turístico, Rui Zink returns with a romance that confronts us with questions we all face sooner or later.

Rui Zink, born in Lisbon in 1961, is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. A writer, teacher, and intellectual provocateur, he has built a body of work marked by irony, social criticism, and a 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: humour as a sharp form of thought.