Description
A bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother accept an invitation to dine with a wealthy friend, only to find the evening slipping into a strange, interconnected web of neighbors, rumors, and uncanny local mysteries. As conversation drifts from everyday details to a mysterious pit, an old bricklayer’s private rituals, and the host’s obsessive display of antiques, the boundaries between the ordinary and the impossible begin to thin. In César Aira’s characteristically nimble, dreamlike style, the dinner becomes a stage for escalating dread—culminating in a late-night turn of events that mirrors the party’s unsettling atmosphere. Themes of social performance, the fragility of reality, and the way fear spreads through media and community converge in a darkly comic, surreal descent that feels both intimate and eerily cosmic.
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paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2015
ISBN: 9780811221085
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Details
First Published
2015
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dinner by César Aira.