Contributions by Elizabeth Lowe

Elizabeth Lowe Elizabeth Lowe is Professor and Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She translates Brazilian fiction of the 19th-21st centuries into English.

The only happy ending for a love story is an accident (excerpt)

Published on February 10th of 2014 by JP Cuenca, Martin Caamaño and Elizabeth Lowe in Fiction.

J.P. Cuenca
translated by Elizabeth Lowe
 

 
Before Mr. Atsuo Okuda opened the box, everything was dark.
 In fact, there was nothing to be illuminated before Mr. Okuda opened the box. If Mr. Okuda had never opened the box, nothing would exist. The world began only at the instant that Mr. Okuda opened the box and said the word.






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