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Ghosts | César Aira
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The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published by New Directions. "On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course." — from Ghosts Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
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bromeliad
Ghosts | César Aira
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I mean, I wouldn't expect even the majority of people who read this bitty-but-brilliant book to like it, but it feels so important, so relevant (written in 1990!!), and so mind-blowing that I want to thrust a copy of this book into the hands of every person I pass on the street and shout into their faces, “READ THIS BOOK. READ THIS BOOK RIGHT MEOW.“ #Argentina #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #readharder

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bromeliad
Ghosts | César Aira
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I know César Aira has a reputation of being surreal to the point of making the most abstract-loving literary critics throw their hands up in bewilderment, but he's kinda blowing my mind. Like, a lot. #Argentina #readaroundtheworld #readingintranslation #readharder

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CoffeeCatsBooks
Ghosts | César Aira
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Thanks to @mrozzz for the tag. For my second round of #5fordinner , I thought I'd have a ghostly dinner. 👻ðŸ½ðŸ·

1. Jane Austen
2. Mary Shelley
3. Beatrix Potter
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne - not sure how he'd do with the dinner as he was so shy and should probably swap him for Twain but the collage is done!
5. Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Little Princess was my favorite book as a child 📚

If you haven't played 5 for dinner, please join in!

monkeygirlsmama ðŸ‘I considered putting Beatrix on my list yesterday. 7y
mrozzz Oooohhhh how interesting!! Haunting 😉 (edited) 7y
hgrimes oh I'd love to invite Beatrix Potter to dinner! 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks Thanks to @LazyOwl and @swishandflick for the tag too! Welcome to my ghostly dinner. 👻 (edited) 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks @monkeygirlsmama @hgrimes She seems like such an interesting woman. I enjoyed the film, Miss Potter, about her too. 7y
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