A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.'My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginnin...

A fictional account based on the life and work of nineteenth-century German painter Johan Moritz Rugendas traces his visit to Argentina for the purpose of achieving in art a "physiognomic totality" of his scientific vision, ...

One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of artArtforum is certainly one of César Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date....

Birthday is among the very best of Aira―it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans Soon enough you realize that you are no longer twenty years old, because right away you are no longer young ... ...

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 ...

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 HareIn nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is ca...

The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published so far by New Directions. Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters,...

At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprisesMaxi, 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-happ...

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 cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortun...

Two completely different stories by the inimitable Cesar AiraThe 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 ...

Aira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient./strong/Cesar Aira's newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single,in his forties, an...

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 seam...

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