How I Became a Nun

Name: How I Became a Nun
Author: Cesar Aira

by Cesar Aira

Woman joins convent and experiences rapid artistic and spiritual transformation

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Cesar Aira

Prolific and idiosyncratic Argentine novelist who publishes several novellas a year in a deliberately improvised anti-literary style. His work has attracted cult readership worldwide for its playful refusal of novelistic convention.

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