The Divorce

César Aira

NEW DIRECTIONS

The Divorce

César Aira
FictionNDP1501First published 2021

Download The Divorce is a masterful demonstration of focused imagination. Aira chronicles overlapping coincidences, layering memory with temporality and injecting magic into the mundane to create a kaleidoscopic tale of serendipitous meetings that rumbles like an avalanche down a mountain, gathering speed and power as the novel progresses. With lightness and verve, Aira twirls the macro with the micro to create a singular novel whose story turns and turns again until it comes full circle, like “that ‘little steel fairy,’” the bicycle, from whose spinning stories are born.

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The Divorce

César Aira

NEW DIRECTIONS