Name: ghosts
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Author: César Aira
ISBN: 9780811217422

Type

Physical Book

Author

César Aira

Translated by

Chris Andrews

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.7 x 13.9 x 0.9 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN

0811217426

ISBN13

9780811217422

Synopsis "ghosts"

On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course. -- from GhostsGhosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.

César Aira

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César Aira nació en Coronel Pringles, Argentina, en 1949. Desde 1967 vive en Buenos Aires dedicado a la traducción y a la escritura. Su obra ha sido publicada profusamente en Hispanoamérica, ampliamente galardonada con premios como el Roger Caillois (2014) y el Formentor (2021), entre otros, y traducida a más de veinte idiomas. Con El santo, Random House inauguró la Biblioteca con su nombre, donde se recuperan algunos de sus mejores títulos: Ema, la cautiva, Cómo me hice monja, La mendiga, Cumpleaños, El mago, Canto castrato, Las noches de Flores, Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero, Parménides, Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira, Las aventuras de Barbaverde, El error, El congreso de literatura, Los fantasmas, El cerebro musical, Sobre el arte contemporáneo / En La Habana, Evasión y otros ensayos, Prins, Fulgentius, Diez novelas de César Aira, La ola que lee y El jardinero, el escultor y el fugitivo.

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