The Divorce

César Aira
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With an enthusiastic foreword by Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delighful book of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and alternate realities The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video artist, he sees a young man riding by on a bicycle get thoroughly drenched by a downpour of water—seemingly from rain caught the night before in the overhead awning. The video artist knows the cyclist, who knew a mad hermetic sculptor whose family used to take the Hindu God Krishna for walks in the neighborhood. As the coincidences continue to add up, the stories concerning each new connection weave reality with the absurd until they reach a final, brilliant, cataclysmic ending.
Genres: FictionNovellaLatin AmericanLiteratureSpanish LiteratureContemporaryMagical RealismShort StoriesLatin American LiteratureBook Club
96 Pages

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