**Caio is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation. —Ítalo MoriconiFor Abreu, writing is a form of salvation: from madness, from death, from invisibility, and, especially, from the self. —Bruna Dantas Lobato**The thirteen stories of No Dragons in Paradise are about love. "Love and sex, love and death, love and abandonment, love and joy, love and memory, love and fear, love and madness," Caio Fernando Abreu writes in his epigraph. The stories can be...

**Caio Fernando Abreu is one of those authors who is picked up by every generation...In these surreal and gripping stories about desire, tyranny, fear, and love, one of Brazil’s greatest queer writers appears in English for the first time**In 18 daring, scheming stories filled with tension and intimacy, Caio Fernando Abreu navigates a Brazil transformed by the AIDS epidemic and stifling military dictatorship of the 80s.Tenderly suspended between fear and lo...