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Dinner

César Aira ; translation by Katherine Silver

(A New Directions paperbook)

New Directions, 2015

  • : pbk

Other Title

La Cena

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Note

Originally published: Beatriz Viterbo, 2006

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Description

One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living-all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB20873445
  • ISBN
    • 9780811221085
  • LCCN
    2015012167
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    spa
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    101 p.
  • Size
    18 cm
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