Birthday begins with a fiftieth birthday. It comes and goes without fanfare, but just a few months later, an apparently banal comment that reveals a gap in the author’s knowledge of the world prompts him to sit down in a cafe and write. As he sifts through anecdotes and weaves memories together, Aira reflects on the origin of his beliefs and his incapacity to live, on literature understood from the author’s and the reader’s point of view, on death and the Last Judgement.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 2019
Publisher: And Other Stories
Pages: 96
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9781911508403
ISBN 10: 1911508407