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Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it), finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is actually a good deal more agreeable than his wife herself, now occupying the body of the same German shepherd in a mental hospital run by a cabal of scientists who, as it happens, have designs on the whole neighborhood. But then Lucio gains a sense, however confused, of what's right, which is an even bigger problem yet. Bioy Casares's strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight.

Book details

• Full title: Asleep in the Sun
• Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares, James Sallis, Suzanne Jill Levine
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172
• EAN: 9781590170953
• ISBN: 1590170954
• ID: 12331420
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Weight: 200 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 128 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: August 2004

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