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The Linden Tree

César Aira

3.69/5 (257 ratings)

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The Linden Tree was written in 2003. In it the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living PBK in Buenos Aires) revisits down his childhood memories. Beginning with an enigmatically beautiful black father who gathered linden flowers to make a sleep-inducing tea, and continuing on to an irrational and physically deformed mother of European descent, the narrator also catalogs his best childhood friends and the many gossiping neighbors. Aira creates a colorful mosaic of an epoch in Argentina when the poor, under the guiding hand of Eva Pero´n, aspired to a newfound middle class. Moving from anecdote to anecdote, alternating between the touching, amusing, and sometimes surreal, we are comforted by the fact that for Aira “everything is allegory.”

This is a charming novella—evocative, reflexive, amusing, intelligent—that invites the reader to look further into Aira’s great body of work.

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ISBN10:: 0811219089

ISBN13:: 9780811219082

kindle Asin:: B0745KKF7V

The Linden Tree

César Aira

3.69/5 (257 ratings)

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The Linden Tree was written in 2003. In it the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living PBK in Buenos Aires) revisits down his childhood memories. Beginning with an enigmatically beautiful black father who gathered linden flowers to make a sleep-inducing tea, and continuing on to an irrational and physically deformed mother of European descent, the narrator also catalogs his best childhood friends and the many gossiping neighbors. Aira creates a colorful mosaic of an epoch in Argentina when the poor, under the guiding hand of Eva Pero´n, aspired to a newfound middle class. Moving from anecdote to anecdote, alternating between the touching, amusing, and sometimes surreal, we are comforted by the fact that for Aira “everything is allegory.”

This is a charming novella—evocative, reflexive, amusing, intelligent—that invites the reader to look further into Aira’s great body of work.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: First Edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 0811219089

ISBN13:: 9780811219082

kindle Asin:: B0745KKF7V

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