Dinner
By: by César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver
Contributors: Silver, Katherine, translator
Edition: First American paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780811221085
Subjects: Zombies; Fiction
Work titles: Cena
Description: One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the old bricklayer who sometimes walked to the cemetery to cheer himself up. Anxious to show off his valuable antiques, the host shows his guests old windup toys and takes them to admire an enormous doll. Back at home, the bachelor decides to watch some late night TV before retiring. The news quickly takes a turn for the worse as, horrified, the newscaster finds herself reporting about the dead rising from their graves, leaving the cemetery, and sucking the blood of the living, all somehow, disturbingly reminiscent of the dinner party.
Notes: A New Directions paperback original NDP1316.