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Ghosts

Fiction

César Aira
translated by Chris Andrews

The most unsettling and stunning of Aira’s short novels published so far by New Directions.

Ghosts is about a construction worker’s family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter’s life hangs in the balance.

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César Aira

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Publication Date: February 1, 2009

Paperback $ 13.95
144 pages
ISBN 9780811217422

trim size: 5x7

Ebook $13.95
ISBN 9780811219815

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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."