| Dinner Contributor(s): Aira, César (Author), Silver, Katherine (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811221083 ISBN-13: 9780811221085 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-apocalyptic - Fiction | Thrillers - Supernatural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015012167 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.8" W x 6.8" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living--all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aira, Cesar: - Nominated for a Neustadt award and the Man Booker International Prize, César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, in 1949. He has published at least one hundred books and was most recently the creator of a limited edition, "Valise," for the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.Silver, Katherine: - KATHERINE SILVER is an award-winning liter- ary translator and the codirector of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC). Her translations include works by Ce´sar Aira, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Jose´ Emilio Pacheco, Elena Poniatowska, Jorge Franco, and Marti´n Ada´n, among others. |