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  The Seamstress and the Wind (Paperback) By (author) Cesar Aira

  

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  Short Description for The Seamstress and the WindAs he runs wildly amok, Aira captures childhood s treasures the reality of the fable and the delirium of invention in this hilariously funny book.
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  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Published: 11 November 2011
  • Format: Paperback 132 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fiction In Translation
  • ISBN 13: 9780811219129 ISBN 10: 0811219127
  • Sales rank: 168,840

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Full description for The Seamstress and the Wind

• The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. Aseamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacherfears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnappedand driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a local taxito 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, butto adventures in desire where the wild Southern wind falls in love with theseamstress, and a monster child takes up with the truck driver. Interspersedare Aira s musings about memory and childhood, and his hometown of CoronelPringles, with a compelling view of the hard lot of this working-class town, situated not far from Buenos Aires.