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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.
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Aira will put knots in your brain.--Ben Ratliff
Aira's works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredicatbility is masterful.--Rivka Galchen
Aira's output has been a steady tickle of irrefutable genius and deepening strangeness.
Dinner is far more intelligent than your average zombie tale...Aira adds extra depth to what lies just beneath the surface.--Jessica Loudis
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Aira's works are like slim cabinets of wonder, full of unlikely juxtapositions. His unpredicatbility is masterful.--Rivka Galchen
Aira's output has been a steady tickle of irrefutable genius and deepening strangeness.
Dinner is far more intelligent than your average zombie tale...Aira adds extra depth to what lies just beneath the surface.--Jessica Loudis
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 ninety books and was most recently the creator and curator of a limited edition art piece, "Valise," for the MoMA, NYC.
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