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    The Famous Magician

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    A writer is offered a devil’s bargain: will he give up reading books in exchange for total world domination?

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    How I Became a Nun

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    A good story and first-rate social science. -New York Times Book Review. A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice…

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    The Literary Conference

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    New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world.

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    The Hare

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    When a Mapuche chief suddenly goes missing, a British naturalist is asked to find him in the vast Argentine pampas

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    Artforum

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    One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of art

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    Ghosts

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    The most unsettling and stunning of Aira’s short novels published by New Directions.

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    The Linden Tree

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    A delightful fictional account of the small town Cesar Aira grew up in-not so long ago

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    Birthday

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    Birthday is among the very best of Aira-it will surprise readers new to his work, and will deeply satisfy his many fans

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    Ema the Captive

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    Ema The Captive, Cesar Aira’s second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare

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    Shantytown

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    At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprises

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    The Musical Brain: And Other Stories

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    A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of micro-fiction.

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    The Conversations

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    A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wrist

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    The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof

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    Two completely different stories by the inimitable Cesar Aira

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    Fulgentius

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    Aira holds a fun-house mirror up to the genre of historical fiction in this novel about an aging Roman general on what may be his last campaign into the provinces.

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    The Divorce

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    With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate…

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    An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

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    An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man’s life that…

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    The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

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    Aira’s latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient.

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