It’s a slim book, running to only 47 pages and seven chapters. Each chapter consists of one long sentence. It is about a pair of lovers – a young female journalist and an older man who inhabits an isolated farm.

They spend the night together and the following morning without any warning they tear into each other. It is unexpectedly barbaric and devastating given how a little while earlier they had been so lovingly tender.

Raduan Nassar's A Cup of Rage is an extraordinary book for its intensity and the power game between the couple. Given that women’s movements and feminism were gaining significance in the 1970s, the older man’s venomous verbal tirade directed at the emancipated woman/lover, followed by the stinging slap he delivers, gives the reader a shocking jolt.

Nassar, who was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to immigrant Lebanese parents, has published only three books.

Published in Portuguese in 1978. Translated into English by Stefan Tobler, published in 2015.