Ema the Captive by César Aira

Ema the Captive

César Aira with Chris Andrews (Translator)

128 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
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In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (...

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