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The Miracle Cures Of Dr. Aira
César Aira
New Directions
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
88 pages
ISBN: 0811219992
EAN: 9780811219990
Kindle: B007HXL1LA
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Aira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful
doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help
a hopeless patient. César Aira’s newest novel in
English is not about a conventional doctor. Single,in his
forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality —
his weaknesses,whims, and pet peeves — is summed up in a
series of digressions and regressions but he has a very
special gift for miracles. He no longer cares about
miracles,however, and has no faith in them. Perhaps he is
even a little ashamed about his supernatural powers. Such is
Dr. Aira, who also has to confront his arch-enemy— chief of
the Piñero Hospital, Dr. Actyn — who is constantly trying to
prove that Dr. Aira is a charlatan. Poor Dr. Aira is indeed
a worker of miracles, but César Aira — the magesterial
author — sends the very human doctor stumbling toward the
biggest trap of all, in this magical book.
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