Books like Ghosts by César Aira
Ghosts follows the life of an immigrant worker’s family who occupy a vacant construction site of a luxury condominium building. Every laborer, their spouses, and children witness the apparitions that haunt the empty floors, but the most inquisitive of them all is a teenage girl. Her relentless questioning of the ghosts ultimately drives her mother to a chilling realization: her daughter’s life hangs in the balance.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: César Aira
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