Ghosts (New Directions Paperbook)
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Book Info
Author
Aira, César
Word Count
36,000 words
based on page count
Pages
144 pages
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Edition Publisher
New Directions
Edition Publish Date
2009-02-24
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 0811217426
ISBN-13: 9780811217422
Description
The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published so far by New Directions.
“On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course.”—from Ghosts
Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.
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