Aira, César
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Five
$23.95 Read moreFive , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together–each an astonishing work–Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical B
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0811232360
- Language: English
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The Hare
$14.95 Read moreClarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that most elusive and rare animal: the Legibrerian hare, whose defining quality seems to be its ability to fly. The local… [more below]
- Series: Ndp
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2013
- ISBN10: 0811220907
- Language: English
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The Famous Magician
$17.95 Read moreA certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown'”) strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: “My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of my… [more below]
- Series: Storybook ND
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811228894
- Language: English
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Dinner
$13.95 Read moreOne Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one d… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0811221083
- Language: English
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Artforum
$13.95 Read moreArtforum is certainly one of C?ar Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not a… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229262
- Language: English
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Festival & Game of the Worlds
$15.95 Add to cartIn Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he’s brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: W
- Author: Aira, C?sar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237303
- Language: English
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Ghosts
$14.95 Read more“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 tele… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0811217426
- Language: English
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
$13.95 Add to cartAn Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216306
- Language: English
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The Musical Brain: And Other Stories
$29.95 Read moreA delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction, C?ar Aira-the author of at least eighty novels, most of them barely one hundred pages long-The Musical Brain & O… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 081122029X
- Language: English
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How I Became a Nun
$14.95 Add to cartThe idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist Shep… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0811216314
- Language: English
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The Divorce
$11.95 Add to cartThe Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there, one… [more below]
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230937
- Language: English
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Fulgentius
$14.95 Add to cartBy profession I am a soldier, a general in the glorious Roman army. As a playwright, I think of myself as a sublime amateur.
In Cesar Aira’s new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roma
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811231690
- Language: English
