Petite Fleur
- Authors
- Havilio, Iosi
- Publisher
- Sheffield: And Other Stories
- Tags
- contemporary fiction;literary fiction;novel;translation;translated fiction;literature in translation;horror;crime;comedy;drama;supernatural;unexplained phenomena;uncanny;murder;resurrection;magic power;magical realism;bakery;spade;gardening;argentina;buenos aires;argentinian;césar aira;ghosts;carlos gamerro;borges;villalobos;fireworks;unemployment;stay-at-home father;house-husband;pequeña flor;sidney bechet;chris barber;jazz;music;jodorowsky;houellebecq;marriage counselling;daughter
- Date
- 2015-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.85 MB
- Lang
- en
"As vertiginous, airtight and intense as a dream." —Yuri Herrera
When José's fireworks factory job ends explosively, his wife Laura must return to work. Recovering from his initial apathy, he makes friends with his jazz-loving neighbor. But as José uncovers a gruesome talent, life, death, and resurrection converge. Written as one single, hypnotic paragraph, Petite Fleur harnesses the unpredictability of César Aira and the mysticism of Leo Tolstoy in a dissonant riff on suburban life.
Iosi Havilio (b. 1974, Buenos Aires) became a cult author in Argentina after his debut Open Door was praised by influential critics Rodolfo Fogwill and Beatriz Sarlo. Petite Fleur is his fifth novel.