The Seamstress and the Wind

by César Aira

Book Overview

The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny novel. A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a local taxi to follow the semi in hot pursuit. When her husband finds out what's happened, he takes off after wife and child. They race not only to the end...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219127
• ISBN13: 9780811219129
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.0"