Blue Flowers

Recently separated and living alone in an unfamiliar apartment, Marcos finds an anonymous blue envelope in his mailbox. Inside is an intensely raw, confessional letter written by a woman known only as 'A.'—addressed to her former lover, the apartment’s previous tenant. Day after day, another letter arrives. As A.'s desperate confessions lay bare the intoxicating passion, betrayal, and violence of a destructive relationship, Marcos finds himself drawn into an inescapable voyeuristic obsession. Neglecting his work, his ex-wife, and his distant daughter, he begins projecting his own regrets and fantasies onto this invisible woman, searching the city streets for her shadow. Winner of the prestigious Machado de Assis Prize and translated with hypnotic precision by Daniel Hahn, Blue Flowers is an unsettling, atmospheric psychological tour de force about loneliness, desire, and the intoxicating danger of losing yourself in someone else's grief.