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1) Birthday
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birthday is among the very best of Aira—it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans
Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changing—and then, just as suddenly you realize that you are fifty years old. Aira had anticipated his fiftieth—a time when he would not so much recall years past as look...Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Aira–the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long–The Musical Brain comprises twenty tales about oddballs, freaks, and loonies. Aira, with his fuga hacia adelante or "flight forward" into the unknown, gives us imponderables to ponder and bizarre and seemingly out-of-context plot lines, as well as thoughtful and passionate...
8) La papisa
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Mujer de genio y talento, la joven Juana de Ingelheim no se conforma con las costumbres imperantes en la sociedad medieval. Instruida por sus padres en el arte de las letras y la medicina, Juana adopta la personalidad de su hermano muerto para ingresar en el monasterio de Fulda, donde se inicia en la vida monacal. Allí, convertida en el hermano Juan, la joven destaca como un excelente escolástico. Enviada a Roma, pronto se verá inmersa en la compleja...
