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Absurdist
A delightful fictional account of the small town César Aira grew up in -- not so long ago A delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great... See More
Literary Fiction
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Contemporary Fiction
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... See More
Fantasy
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Historical Fiction
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... See More
Literary Fiction
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate realities written as only... See More
Humor & Satire
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... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Literary Fiction
"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... See More
Mystery
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... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Science Fiction & FantasyOddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the future In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an... See More
Humor & Satire
Literature & Fiction
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 Aira-the author of at least eighty... See More
Literary Fiction
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... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
"César Aira has become a cult fiction writer in his native Argentina as well as throughout Latin America for his hyperrealist treatment of surreal or implausible scenarios and his aggressive defiance of literary... See More
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Literature & Fiction
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... See More