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The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof Paperback – 16 June 2017

by César Aira (Author), Nick Caistor (Author)

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The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. The Proof brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit ("Wannafuck?" is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Tra edition (16 June 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0811221121
ISBN-13 : 978-0811221122
Dimensions : 12.7 x 1.52 x 17.78 cm

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Aira continues to surprise and delight in his latest release from New Directions, which collects two novellas...There are a number of similarities to be sure--they both revolve around the sudden but intense relationship between three characters, they both take place over the course of less than twenty-four hours, they are both, at turns, wildly funny.--The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof (08/08/2017)

Uncanny imagination à la Calvino.--Laura Pearson

New novellas from Aira are always a cause for celebration.--Brian Evenson

Aira's novels parody narrative form, destroy normal cause and effect, and contain bold conceptual dialogues.--Michael Eaude

Irreverent inventiveness ... without analogue in contemporary literature.--Megan Doll

South America's answer to Haruki Murakami.--Andrew Irvin

Aira delivers one surreal unraveling of reality after another that proceeds paradox by paradox into psychic realms.--Michael Upchurch

Cesar Aira is wild. The laws of gravity do not apply.--James S.A. Correy

About the Author

Nick Caistor is a translator, editor, and author. He has written a biography of Octavio Paz and has translated the works of José Saramago, Paulo Coelho, and Julián Ríos, among others.