Author: Cesar Aira

Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recen...

A certain writer (past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown') strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: My Sunday walk through the m...

In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn bab...

Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conver...

A delightful fictional memoir about César Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Air...

Before you know it you are no longer young, and by the way, while you were thinking about other things, the world was changingand then, just as sud...

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 dist...

Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turn...

`Suddenly it hits you: you're not twenty; you're not young any more . . . and in the meantime, while you were thinking about something else, the wo...

Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Airess shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt,...

Artforum is certainly one of César Airas most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his c...