Ghosts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217422)

"On a building site of a new, luxury apartment building, visitors looked up at the strange, irregular form of the water tank that crowned the edifice, and the big parabolic dish that would supply television images to all the floors. On the edge of the dish, a sharp metallic edge on which no bird would have dared to perch, three completely naked men were sitting, with their faces turned up to the midday sun; no one saw them, of course." -- from Ghosts

Ghosts is about a construction worker's family squatting on a building site. They all see large and handsome ghosts around their quarters, but the teenage daughter is the most curious. Her questions about them become more and more heartfelt until the story reaches a critical, chilling moment when the mother realizes that her daughter's life hangs in the balance.

Author: C駸ar Aira
ISBN-10: 0811217426
ISBN-13: 9780811217422
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 6.96h x 5.46w x 0.36d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/22/2008 pg. 31
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2009 pg. 19
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2009 pg. 18
New Yorker (The) 03/30/2009 pg. 71
New York Review of Books 01/13/2011 pg. 36