Cover of O Antígeno Ausente

L. V. Serrat

O Antígeno Ausente

The report didn't say 'rare.' It said 'absent.' Helena translates reports that call paid donors volunteers — until the day her own body becomes the document.

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Romance documental / ficcao literaria bioetica · 3 chapters· Portuguese

A translator discovers a rare absence in her own blood — and realizes she spent years making acceptable the language of systems that turn bodies into data.

  • A documentary novel about the body, technical language and bioethics.
  • Science appears as archive, labor and intimacy.
  • A biological discovery that becomes a political discovery of one's own voice.

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