Conversations
Aira, César, Katherine Silver (translation)"Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange sensations of deception, distress, and incipient madness. The two men's uneasiness soon becomes a nightmare as the TV adventure advances with a real-life plot--involving a mutant strain of killer algae--to take over the world!"--Amazon.com
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Katherine Silver is an award-winning translator of literature from Spanish & was the co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Alberta, Canada. Her most recent translations include works by María Sonia Cristoff, Martín Adán, Daniel Sada, Horacio Castellanos Moya, César Aira, Rafael Bernal, Jorge Luis Borges, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Julio Cortázar, Juan Carlos Onetti, & Julio Ramón Ribeyro (winner of the Premio Valle-Inclán 2020). Silver is the author of Echo Under Story. She does volunteer interpreting for asylum seekers.