{"product_id":"pandora-paperback-3","title":"Pandora - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Paula Pacheco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Sanches\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance--with a pangolin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmid changes in medication and fraught faculty meetings, Ana's grip on reality loosens. She begins to devise a syllabus on the financialization of art and life, posing questions about labor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts tender and grotesque, \u003ci\u003ePandora\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAna Paula Pacheco\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of literary theory and comparative literature at the University of São Paulo, and author of the books\u003ci\u003e Lugar do mito\u003c\/i\u003e, about the work of João Guimarães Rosa; \u003ci\u003eA casa deles\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of short stories; and \u003ci\u003ePonha-se no seu lugar!\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received the Seleção Cátedra Unesco prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Sanches\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Claudia Hernández, Daniel Galera, and Eva Baltasar, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267553411321,"sku":"9798893380224","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Oad_e0t3Jd9798893380224_2a1e91e5-61fa-4fef-bf17-9cb6776b78a8.webp?v=1768868144","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/pandora-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}