The title, "Flight at Dawn," is appropriate for this somber and superb collection by one of Brazil's premier story writers. The collection won the prestigious Jabuti Prize. The title story is about the narrator's unexpected flight in the same plane as several coffins of accident victims. Besides stories, the work also includes meditations on the genre, and a novella, "The Gorilla." Broad canvas includes love, lust, incest, drugs, old age, sleep, and death.