In his weekly chronicles in Folha de S. Paulo, Moacyr Scliar reveals the fantastic side of real life by creating fictional stories inspired by the news in the newspaper. Histórias que os jornais não contam includes 54 of these pieces, in which the author skillfully transforms the most mundane events into high-quality literature with lightness and humor. From airplane etiquette to tearless onions, from corruption in Brasília to painting monkeys, nothing escapes his attention.
