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Dinner / César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.

Title
Dinner / César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
Author
Aira, César, 1949-
Publication
  • New York : New Directions Books, 2015.
  • ©2015

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  • New Directions Publishing.
  • Silver, Katherine
Description
101 pages; 18 cm.
Summary
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 livingall somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; NDP1316
Uniform Title
  • Cena. English
  • New Directions paperbook 1316.
Alternative Title
Cena.
Note
  • Translated from the Spanish.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780811221085
  • 0811221083
LCCN
^^2015012167
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library