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A collection of narratives written between 1949 and 1969, Antes do baile Verde is considered by many critics to be Lygia Fagundes Telles' most successful book of short stories. The situations narrated are very diverse. In "A caçada", a man is so intrigued by an old tapestry found in an antique shop that he ends up immersing himself in the scene depicted in the play as if he had participated in it in another life or another dimension. In the macabre "Venha ver o Pôr-do-Sol", a young man takes his ex-girlfriend to an abandoned family tomb. Love conflicts are also the theme of "Apenas um Saxofone", "Um Chá bem Forte e Três Cups", "O Jardim Selvagem" and "As Pérolas". But the focus is always diverse and surprising. In "O Menino", for example, marital infidelity is observed obliquely, through the eyes of a boy who goes to the movies with his mother. But Lygia's human and literary scope is not restricted to couples' dramas. "Christmas on the Boat" is a short parable with an epiphanic ending. "Midnight on the Dot in Shanghai" is the assessment that an opera prima donna makes of her lonely and empty life. In "The Saxophone Boy" a truck driver hesitates to go to bed with a married woman in a roadside boarding house. In "The Window", a madman visits a brothel saying that it is the house where his son died. With her confident and elegant prose, effortlessly alternating genres and narrative voices, the author here displays to the highest degree her ability to seduce and move the reader.