Overview

Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance with a pangolin. Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana's care and attention: an overbearing pangolin, a swarm of insects, a giant bat. Amid changes in medication and fraught faculty meetings, Ana's grip on reality loosens. She begins to devise a syllabus on the financialisation of art and life, posing questions about labour and intimacy she will use her own body to answer. Her apartment fills with creatures, her teaching slides into absurd allegory, and her sense of what is real, permissible, or politically legible fractures. Equal parts tender and grotesque, Pandora is a hallucinatory portrait of a mind and a world in collapse, a razor-sharp meditation on desire, delusion, and the absurd endurance of the human.

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“Ribald and unsettling...the experimental and provocative narration is consistently engrossing.”—Publishers Weekly

“Equal parts ribald and unsettling...[Pandora] adds up to a singular portrait of pandemic life.”—Publishers Weekly

Author Information

Ana Paula Pacheco is a professor of literary theory and comparative literature at the University of So Paulo, and author of the books Lugar do mito, about the work of Joo Guimares Rosa;A casa deles, a collection of short stories; and Ponha-se no seu lugar!, for which she received the Seleco Ctedra Unesco prize. Julia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Claudia Hernndez, Daniel Galera, and Eva Baltasar, among others.

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