The Eighth Wonder: a novel

A fantastical story where the protagonist is caught between reality and the feverish inventions of his mind by a groundbreaking female novelist of Argentina’s metaphysical tradition.

Available for the first time in English, this classic of Latin American literature--in the tradition of Borges, her mentor--features a foreword by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Alberto Paradella, a divorced lawyer, journalist, and writer who is thirty-two years old, wakes up one morning in Buenos Aires next to a blonde w...