When I was writing, it felt as if I was getting closer and closer, day by day, to a certain part inside us which cannot be destroyed, which cannot be or harmed. It was like a small ritual every day: like a prayer. In the opening pages, you say that you want the process of writing this book to be transformative: has it been?
I think that the world is transient and I was given this world by luck. But then she felt me move inside her and decided that she would give birth to me. And because she was so weak, she considered abortion. When my mother was pregnant with me, she was very sick, so she was taking lots of medication. You acknowledge in the book that if your mother’s first two babies hadn’t died, you and your brother wouldn’t have been conceived.
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