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Laparotomy

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

Translated by Jethro Soutar

‘At forty, I think the world leads to the body. Besides, laid out on a stretcher, you are your only home’ .

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

Alexandra Lucas Coelho was born in Lisbon in 1967. She has published the novels E A Noite Roda (And the Night Spins), winner of the 2012 Portuguese Writers’ Association Award and O Meu Amante de Domingo (My Lover on Sundays), and five works of non-fiction, Oriente Próximo (Near East), Caderno Afegão (Afghan Notebook), Viva México (Viva Mexico), Tahrir (Tahrir), Vai, Brasil (Go, Brazil). She has been a journalist since 1987. She has lived in Jerusalem and Rio de Janeiro.

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Translated by Jethro Soutar

Jethro Soutar is a writer and translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He is co-editor of The Football Crónicas, a collection of translated short-form writing from Latin America, and a co-founder of Ragpicker Press. His recent translations include Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s Arde el monte de noche (By Night the Mountain Burns) and Frei Beto’s Hotel Brasil, published in English under the same title.

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