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The seamstress and the wind / César Aira ; translated from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht.

By:

Aira, Cesar, (, 1949-)

Contributor(s):

Knecht, Rosalie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Directions Books , 2011.Description: 132 p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780811219129

Uniform titles:

Costurera y el viento . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC AIR

LOC classification:

PQ7798.1.I7 C6713 2011

Summary: The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a local taxi to follow the semi in hot pursuit. When her husband finds out what s happened,he takes off after wife and child. They race not only to the end of the world, but to adventures in desire where the wild Southern wind falls in love with the seamstress, and a monster child takes up with the truck driver. Interspersedare Aira's musings about memory and childhood, and his hometown of Coronel Pringles, with a compelling view of the hard lot of this working-class town,situated not far from Buenos Aires.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC AIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		050836

Originally published by in Argentina as La costurera y el viento, in 1994.

The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a local taxi to follow the semi in hot pursuit. When her husband finds out what s happened,he takes off after wife and child. They race not only to the end of the world, but to adventures in desire where the wild Southern wind falls in love with the seamstress, and a monster child takes up with the truck driver. Interspersedare Aira's musings about memory and childhood, and his hometown of Coronel Pringles, with a compelling view of the hard lot of this working-class town,situated not far from Buenos Aires.

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