The Little Buddhist Monk / the Proof
- Authors
- Aira, César
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Tags
- fiction;argentina;argentinian;argentine;buenos aires;flores;literature in translation;translated fiction;translated literature;novel;novella;supermarket;grocery store;diner;punk;punks;girls;lesbians;gay;hostage;explosion;attack;robbery;armed robbery;music;youth culture;subculture;youth gangs;marcia;lenin;mao;the seamstress and the wind;the little buddhist monk;3 novels;three novels;la prueba;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 , contemporary
- ISBN
- 9780811221122
- Date
- 2017-05-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.90 MB
- Lang
- en
*The Little Buddhist Monk* is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. *The Proof* brings us quickly back to the West, where two punks, plus a new recruit (“Wannafuck?” is the opening line as the two punk lesbians accost the chubby and shy Marcia on a quiet street in Buenos Aires), take control of a local supermarket with dire consequences for the hostages. These two Aira works are as different as night and day. Nevertheless, sex, identity, and modern day economics figure deeply in both of these fast-paced, edgy fictions.