by Cesar Aira · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497933247
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In a remote Chinese province, a peasant gets lost in an impossible love spell. Lu Hsin, ingenious and patient, decides to create a possibility out of nothing, a task that takes him a lifetime. This erotic, timeless and Chinese fable takes place during twenty crucial years in the history of the Porcelain Empire, between the Long March and the Cultural Revolution. Hydraulics, painting, politics and daily life in a village mark the passage of time in fiction, which is revealed as the moment of reality and love. César Aira is one of the most original, imaginative and intelligent narrators. His work has been published in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and translated into more than twenty languages.
César Aira is an Argentine writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentine literature. He has published over a hundred short books of stories, novels and essays. He has lectured at the University of Buenos Aires, on Copi and Arthur Rimbaud, and at the University of Rosario on Constructivism and Stéphane Mallarmé, and has translated and edited books from France, England, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Venezuela.
