Daily conversations in outdoor cafés 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.
ISBN: | 9780811221108 |
Publication date: | 5th May 2015 |
Author: | César Aira |
Publisher: | New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 88 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |