Conversations

Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men's uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot - involving a mutant strain of killer algae - to take over the world! The Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching.

About the author

César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He won the 2021 Formentor Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Booker International Prize.
 

Product details

• Authors: Cesar Aira, Cesar Silver Aira, Katherine Silver, César Aira
• Assisted by: Katherine Silver (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.05.2015
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies
• EAN: 9780811221108
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-2110-8
• Pages: 96
• Series: New Directions Paperbook > 1294; New Directions Paperbook > 1294
• Subjects: FICTION / Literary; Fiction - General