Cesar Aira

• Jun-2006
• / General Fiction
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An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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"A good story and first-rate social science." -- New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. The idea of the Native American living in perfec...

• Feb-2009
• / Fantasy
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The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published by New Directions. "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 pa...

• Jun-2010
• / Literary
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New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world. César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an a...

• Jul-2011
• / Literary
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As he runs wildly amok, Aira captures childhood’s treasures -- the reality of the fable and the delirium of invention -- in this hilariously funny book. The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. A seamstress who i...

• Mar-2012
• / Literary
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The surprising, magnificent story of a Panamanian government employee who, one day, after a series of troubles, writes the celebrated masterwork of modern Central American poetry. Unmistakably the work of César Aira, Varamo is about the day in the l...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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Aira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient. César Aira’s newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single,in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is ...

• Jul-2013
• / Literary
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When a Mapuche chief suddenly goes missing, a British naturalist is asked to find him in the vast Argentine pampas Clarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare,...

• Nov-2013
• / Literary
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At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman w...

• Jul-2014
• / Literary
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A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, howeve...

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction.

• Mar-2015
• / General Fiction
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A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction. A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, César Airaâ€"the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely o...

• Oct-2015
• / Literary
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Was it a nightmare -- the result of a bad case of indigestion -- or did something truly scary happen after dinner in the Argentine town of Coronel Pringles? One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy frie...

• Dec-2016
• / Fantasy
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Ema The Captive, César Aira’s second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldi...

• Mar-2017
• / General Fiction
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In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guid...

• Jun-2017
• / General Fiction
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Two completely different stories by the inimitable César Aira 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 vacati...

• Dec-2017
• / General Fiction
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Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of...

• Mar-2018
• / Literary
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A delightful fictional account of the small town César Aira grew up in -- not so long agoA delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as Césa...

• Feb-2019
• / Literary
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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 ...

• Apr-2020
• / Literary
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One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of art Artforum is certainly one of César Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of in...

• Jun-2021
• / Magical Realism
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A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires. In a trendy cafe he witnesses a minor accident involving Enrique; the owner of his guest house; this accident reunites Enrique with a childhood friend; with whom he had miraculously escaped from a raging fire in...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2022
• / Literary
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A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination? A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk th...

• Mar-2023
• / Literary
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Aira holds a fun-house mirror up to the genre of historical fiction in this novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces.By profession I am a soldier, a general in the glorious Roman army. As a playwright, I ...

• Jun-2024
• / Science Fiction
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Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the futureIn Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But h...