The latest addition to my website is César Aira‘s La costurera y el viento (The Seamstress and the Wind). This is another madcap adventure by Aira, as a mother (the eponymous seamstress) thinks her young son is in a lorry that is heading to Patagonia (the end of the world) and sets off in a taxi in pursuit, carrying a bulky wedding dress which she is sewing for a woman who has to get married suddenly. The taxi crashes into a lorry, she is carried by the wind and her gambling husband joins the hot pursuit, he, in turn pursued by a strange small blue car, with all of them ending up in a strange gambling joint in the middle of nowhere. All the while the narrator is commenting on travel (he hates it though he is writing the novel in Paris), memory and forgetting. It is glorious fun even if you have no idea what is going to happen or why.