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The Literary Conference

César Aira

Translated by Katherine Silver

César Aira

Ghosts

César Aira

The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published so far by New Directions. 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...