{"product_id":"five","title":"Five","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn offering of five unbelievably daring and masterful novellas from the unstoppable genius César Aira\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive, 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 forced to be a hack translator, a news-paper vendor, and General Winter and his sadistic sidekick, the Little Christmas Tree, Five shows the many facets of Aira’s multifarious mind as he turns expectations inside-out and gleefully explodes genre conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive 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).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky's Books and Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48263631339651,"sku":"9780811232364","price":36.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/3795\/6483\/files\/9780811232364.jpg?v=1789782931","url":"https:\/\/luckys.ca\/products\/five","provider":"Lucky's Books and Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}