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Ghosts by Cesar Aira
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.06"On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply... -
On Contemporary Art by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941701867Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
The Seamstress and the Wind by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9781913505042
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of... -
The Lime Tree by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by... -
Cumpleanos by Cesar Aira 9788439710523
Booksplease Price: £23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788439710523Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Proof by Cesar Aira 9781908276964
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9780811230933
Booksplease Price: £9.62The Divorce tells about a man who takes a vacation from Providence, R.I. in early December to avoid conflicts with his newly divorced wife and small daughter. He travels to Buenos Aires and there,... -
The Literary Conference by Cesar Aira 9780811218788
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.07Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he... -
Ema the Captive by Cesar Aira 9780811219105
Booksplease Price: £14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811219105Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Little Buddhist Monk by Cesar Aira 9781908276988
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and... -
La sala / The Room by Cesar Aira 9788439747079
Booksplease Price: £16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788439747079Author Cesar AiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira 9780811216302
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.85An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was... -
How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira 9780811216319
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.55The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this larger-than-life image? According to anthropologist... -
The Famous Magician Cesar Aira (New Directions) 9780811228893
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A certain writer ("past sixty, enjoying 'a certain renown'") strolls through the old book market in a Buenos Aires park: "My Sunday walk through the market, repeated over so many years, was part of... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin 9780823286829
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £74.37How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Game of the Worlds and Festival by César Aira 9780811237307
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.83In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled:... -
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira 9780241746882
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.7490 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to... -
“Vanguardia” y “tradición” en la narrativa de César Aira by Nancy Fernández 9781930744738
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.92Nancy Fernandez se desempena como investigadora independiente en CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas) y como docente e investigadora en la Universidad Nacional de Mar... -
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House' to the Lewis... -
Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz 9781684485000
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £98.40In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature,... -
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How Was It For You? by Carmen Reid 9780552155830 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.55Five years of gruelling IVF still haven't brought Pamela and Dave the baby they long for. Their marriage is now so rocky, they need hiking boots and crampons just to negotiate dinner. So they... -
Polyphonic Machine, The: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature by Niall H.D. Geraghty
Booksplease Price: £54.40Focusing on the work of the Argentine authors Cesar Aira, Marcelo Cohen, and Ricardo Piglia, The Polyphonic Machine conducts a close analysis of the interrelations between capitalism and political... -
Nature Fantasies: Decolonization and Biopolitics in Latin America by Gabriel Horowitz 9781684484997
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04In this original study, Gabriel Horowitz examines the work of select nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American writers through the lens of contemporary theoretical debates about nature,... -
The Postman (Il Postino): A Novel by Antonio Skarmeta 9780393330397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.57The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award-winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skarmeta's reputation as "one of the most representative authors of the post-boom... -
A Musical Hell by Alejandra Pizarnik
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59"An aura of legendary prestige surrounds the work of Alejandra Pizarnik," writes Cesar Aira. Her last collection to be published before her suicide in 1972, A Musical Hell is the first book of poems... -
Ten Juan Emar 9780811232074
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.91A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemon, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts... -
Notes from Childhood by Norah Lange
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and... -
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature by Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168427
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other... -
Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery by Rosalie Knecht 9780857308122
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 'splendid genre-pushing' (People) Vera Kelly series returns in full force as our recently out-of-the-spy-game heroine finds herself traveling from Brooklyn to a sprawling countryside estate in... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168434
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other... -
Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781913505578
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.62Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines and dictionaries, and what he... -
The Impostor: and Other Stories by Silvina Ocampo
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride... -
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria by Jos� Donoso 9780811232241
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her... -
Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 9780857308108
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.04New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp... -
Empty Words by Annie McDermott 9781911508502
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to... -
Invasion of the Spirit People by Juan Pablo Villalobos
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50Juan Pablo Villalobos's fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer... -
Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing - her father is...