The Conversations

Author: Cesar Aira

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Price : 23.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780811221108
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint : New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Weight (g) : 0.1
Publication date : 04 May 2015
Dimensions : 178mm X 127mm X 7mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : Cesar Aira
Bind : Paperback
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Pages : 96
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Daily conversations in outdoor cafes with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men's uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot - involving a mutant strain of killer algae - to take over the world! The Conversations, a reality within a fiction within a parallel reality, is hilariously funny and surprisingly touching.