Conversations
Fictionby César Aira
Translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver
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! Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching.
Paperback(published June 26, 2014)
- ISBN
- 9780811221108
- Price US
- 13.95
- Price CN
- 15
- Page Count
- 96
Ebook(published June 26, 2014)
- ISBN
- 9780811221115