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Ema, the captive / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.1.I7 E4313 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aira, César, 1949- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Ema, la cautiva. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Single women--Argentina--Fiction.
- Single women.
- Women prisoners--Fiction.
- Women prisoners.
- Social conditions.
- Argentina.
- Argentina--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Summary:
- In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira's work, the wonder of the book is in the details of customs, beauty, and language, and the curious, perplexing reality of human nature.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperbook original."
- ISBN:
- 9780811219105
- 0811219100
- OCLC:
- 940361919
- Publisher Number:
- 40026720927
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