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Embalse
1992
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Es el manual del veraneante depresivo. Las sierras cordobesas son todo sosiego para Martín, su esposa Adriana y sus dos hijos pequeños. Pero incluso unas inocentes vacaciones en familia pueden mostrar un reverso inquietante. En un crescendo sin atenuantes, Martín descubre, bajo la paz idílica de Embalse del Río Tercero, más horror del que puede soportar. Las revelaciones empiezan con una maniobra de doping a futbolistas, siguen con la aparición de transexuales, con un Sabio Loco, un novelista drogado, gallinas mutantes hasta culminar con la catástrofe nuclear, el golpe de Estado y la consumación de la más atroz promesa: el nacimiento de la Liebre Legibreriana, cuyo resplandor iluminará el fin definitivo de la Argentina.

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Cesar Aira
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.
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