The Lime Tree
- Authors
- Aira, César
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Tags
- fiction;argentina;argentinian;argentine;buenos aires;coronel pringles;literature in translation;translated fiction;translated literature;novel;novella;lime tree;linden tree;linden tea;lime blossom tea;la recherché du temps purdue;in search of lost time;revolución libertadora;proust;perón;peronist;anti-peronist;1955;revolution;the seamstress and the wind;the little buddhist monk;3 novels;three novels;la prueba;the proof;ghosts;the literary conference;musical brain;how i became a nun;episode in the life of a landscape painter;bolano;bolaño;borges;jorge luis borges;patti smith;man booker international;manuel rojas prize
- Date
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.10 MB
- Lang
- en
In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author’s father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Perónist revolution, which dashed the family’s middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family's social trajectory.