Five

**An offering of five unbelievably daring and masterful novellas from the unstoppable genius César Aira**
***Five*** , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together—each an astonishing work— *Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime* , and *The Hormone Pill*. Following a cast of dreamlike characters including cyber nuns, a young princess making ends meet as a hack translator, a newspaper vendor, and General Winter and his sadistic sidekick, the Little Christmas Tree, ***Five*** shows the many facets of Aira’s master mind as he turns expectations inside-out and gleefully explodes genre conventions.
***Five*** is a must-have for Aira’s legion of devoted fans around the world and a fine introduction to the as-yet uninitiated. A satisfyingly hefty installment from this “exquisite miniaturist” ( *WSJ* ) and writer whose “cubist eye sees from every angle” ( *NYT* ); because “once you start reading Aira, you don’t want tostop” (Roberto Bolaño).