El mármol
By Cesar Aira
2011
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Alternate cover edition can be found here. A falta de cambio, el cajero de un supermercado chino le ofrece al protagonista de esta novela que elija entre un montón de naderías. Resignado, el hombre manotea al azar unas pilas chinas, un ojo de goma con luz, una tabla de proteínas, una hebilla dorada, una cucharita lupa, un anillo de plástico y una cámara fotográfica del tamaño de un dado. Ignora que al salir lo espera una aventura, y que a esos objetos que cree inútiles podrá darles una función insólita en cada capítulo de sus andanzas.
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Author
Cesar Aira
Author · 68 books
César Aira was born in Coronel Pringles, Argentina in 1949, and has lived in Buenos Aires since 1967. He taught at the University of Buenos Aires (about Copi and Rimbaud) and at the University of Rosario (Constructivism and Mallarmé), and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela. Perhaps one of the most prolific writers in Argentina, and certainly one of the most talked about in Latin America, Aira has published more than eighty books to date in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain, which have been translated for France, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Romania, Russia, and now the United States. One novel, La prueba, has been made into a feature film, and How I Became a Nun was chosen as one of Argentina’s ten best books. Besides essays and novels Aira writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship, in 2002 he was short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos prize, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
