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The aging clerk Coimbra no longer believes in much. Not even his long-standing faith in the lottery—"I'm no longer of the age to hope," he admits—is entirely steadfast. He resolves, then, to buy one last ticket, for the drawing for the huge sum of five hundred contos.
Translated from Portuguese (Brazil) by Juan LePuen
Genre: short story
Length: 5,000 words