João Borges da Cunha was born in 1973, in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has been based ever since. He has written fiction, poetry and drama, for which he was awarded a literary prize by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He holds a degree in architecture, which he also teaches at the university level. He’s a scholar of culture. This is his first original, entirely written in English. He is a ‘Mary-Jane-Kellyist’. Not a ‘Ripperologist’.
In the late spring of 2019, I suffered an accident that put me in a deep coma for days. The details of the event are yet to be clearly explained, since I developed a retrograde amnesia, which doesn't let me remember the previous moments and thus fully recall it. However, the raw facts go like th...