NADWORNY: So tell us about this woman who runs the cemetery and why authorities consider her an outlaw. SAINZ BORGO: Well, in a way, I try to - this novel is based on true fact. I traveled to the border between Venezuela and Colombia in which there exists a woman that did this kind of things. She had a cemetery in which she buried people that had no money enough to get a decent burial. Suddenly, I felt I was talking with Antigone, this tragedy written by Sophocles based on the myth of Antigone, this woman that disobey the law to make possible to bury her brother, that I really wanted to explain this idea of the duty and how can we help other people.
SAINZ BORGO: Yeah. Women used to do this in very different conflicts during the history, to bury during wars, during civil wars, during catastrophe, disasters. Of course, this is a novel as well as fiction, but I really found this huge and important role of taking care of someone even when they're dead. So they're taking on this enormous responsibility.
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