USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof Paperback – May 30, 2017 by César Aira (Author), Nick Caistor (Translator)

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The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof Paperback – May 30, 2017

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

Two completely different stories by the inimitable César Aira

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. 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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"New novellas from Aira are always a cause for celebration." (Brian Evenson - Big Other)

"With many prolific writers it's a case of diminishing returns. César Aira, who's published over eighty books with more to come, is an exception, his open-ended, genre trespassing novellas attesting to his peculiar virtuosity." (John Madera - Big Other)

"Irreverent inventiveness … without analogue in contemporary literature." (Megan Doll - San Francisco Chronicle)

"Uncanny imagination à la Calvino." (Laura Pearson - The Chicago Tribune)

"Cesar Aira is wild. The laws of gravity do not apply." (James S.A. Correy - The Denver Post)

"South America's answer to Haruki Murakami." (Andrew Irvin - The Miami Herald)

"Aira delivers one surreal unraveling of reality after another that proceeds paradox by paradox into psychic realms." (Michael Upchurch - The Seattle Times)

"Aira's novels parody narrative form, destroy normal cause and effect, and contain bold conceptual dialogues." (Michael Eaude - Times Literary Supplement)

About the Author

Nominated for a Neustadt Award and shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least ninety books.

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.

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Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives. 

http://www.cafeafricana.com

On Twitter: @Bookwormlit
https://twitter.com/bookwormlit
Instagram: Aramada_Obirin

Culture, Art History, Film/Cinema, Photography, World Literature, Criminal Justice, Sociology, Child Welfare, Lifestyle & Community.