How I Became a Nun

Name: How I Became a Nun
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ISBN: 9780811216319

ISBN-10: 0811216314

ISBN-13: 9780811216319

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cesar Aira, Chris Andrews

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A sinisterly funny modern-day Through the Looking Glass that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream. "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil." So starts César Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 2/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English