The Lime Tree by Aira, 2024 César NEUF

Product Name: The Lime Tree by Aira, 2024 César NEUF
EAN：9781911508120 UPC：9781911508120 ISBN：9781911508120 2024 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 112 pages
Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to gather the lime-flower blossoms from which he made tea.

Beginning with his father, handsome and `black and working-class, and his strikingly grotesque mother, the narrator quickly leaps from anecdote to anecdote, bringing to life his fathers dream of upward mobility, the dashing of their familys hopes when the Peronist party fell from power, the single room they all shared, and his mothers litany of political rants, which were used - like the lime-flower tea - to keep his father calm.

Airas charming fictional memoir is a colourful mosaic of a small-town neighbourhood, a playful portrait of the artist as a child and an invitation to visit the source of Airas own extraordinary imagination..