Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation PrizeShortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of the trendier districts of Buenos Aires finds himself at the centre a series of strange coincidences. These blips in causality are at first easily rationalised,but soon escalate from the merely implausible to the impossible to the cataclysmic. More,each accident of fate,piling one atop the other,drags a new,rambling tale in its wake,until the very ground beneath the man's feet seems likely to buckle beneath the weight of so many shaggy dogs. And yet,with master storyteller Cesar Aira holding their leashes,what better vacation from reality could any reader-or divorce-desire
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Publisher: And Other StoriesISBN: 9781913505042Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'The Divorce outlines the process for those wishing to comprehend or to experience the expansive possibilities of a single moment. That is his wondrous gift,and The Divorce is the personification of that gift . . .It is certain that The Divorce will leave you breathless.'Patti Smith --'Once you've started reading Aira,you don't want to stop.'Roberto Bolano --'By the time this miraculously dense book has reached its conclusion,Aira has wheeled through the gothic novel,noir,sci-fi,family saga,social satire. It is almost impossible to believe the text occupies only 115 pages...Reading The Divorce is like witnessing an explosion,or the birth of an alphabet.'David Kurnick,Public Books --'His unpredictability is masterful.'Rivka Galchen --'Sui generis is really the only way to accurately describe Cesar Aira. He's by turns a realist,a magical realist and a surrealist - and therefore not really any of them. Anything can happen in an Aira novel,and almost everything does.'Tyler Malone,Los Angeles Times
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