This is a collection of 35 chronicles written by Moacyr Scliar in the 1980s. As is typical of his work as a chronicler the author uses the minor details of everyday life as raw material, always imbued with humor.
With a keen eye for the absurd, Scliar gives new contours to the mundane, denouncing the madness of everyday life through the absurd. In the text that gives the book its name, the shock of reality caused by the Japanese masseuse is just one example of the great art of writing about the minutiae of life.
