Ghosts
by:
César Aira (author)
Chris Andrews (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00DJ4Z324
Publish date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 92
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Ghosts
I'm about to pick my life up and start again, 2,000km away in the tropics. I want to take all of Aira's books with me to be the books I look back on as symbolic of this time. There's a warm, easygoing, daydreamy sensibility to the writing that I could happily bathe in. There's a pragmatism to the ch...
Ghosts. Ghosts everywhere. Ghosts hovering in the corners of an unfinished building, on its roof, telling time, extending invitations, calling. The titular ghosts, the characters rendered ghostlike by their appearance then disappearance from the story. The ghost of a story hovering over the text—to ...