Ema The Captive
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Ema The Captive
César AiraFictionNDP1364First published 2016
In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations a...
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Ema The Captive
César Aira
NEW DIRECTIONS