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The Little Buddhist Monk
César Aira
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In 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 Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot. Though our monk appears to them as the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural ... Read more
In 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 Jacqueline Bloodymary he offers his services as their guide, in the hope they will take him, a penniless monk, to Europe. He whisks them off on a tour of the temples. Among the many twists and turns, our stunned tourists encounter a suicidal horse and discover that a person can also be a robot. Though our monk appears to them as the very spirit of tourism, nothing is natural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276988
SKU
V9781908276988
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-6
About César Aira
Cesar Aira is the author of around 80 books of his own. His writing is considered to be among the most important and influential in Latin America today, and is marked by extreme eccentricity and innovation, as well as a playful spirit. He is without a doubt the true heir to Jorge Luis Borges' literature of ideas.
Reviews for The Little Buddhist Monk
'Once you've started reading Aira, you don't want to stop.' Roberto Bolano
- 'Hail Cesar!' Patti Smith
- 'Aira writes at full tilt, going where the words take him (a style he calls "constant flight forward") so that reading him is dizzying.' Jane Housham, The Guardian
'Bewitching and bewildering ... Compulsively readable ... Aira's writing - with its equal ... Read more
- 'Hail Cesar!' Patti Smith
- 'Aira writes at full tilt, going where the words take him (a style he calls "constant flight forward") so that reading him is dizzying.' Jane Housham, The Guardian
'Bewitching and bewildering ... Compulsively readable ... Aira's writing - with its equal ... Read more