The Lime Tree

In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author's father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Perónist revolution, which dashed the family's middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family's social trajectory. Fiction;Argentina;Argentinian;Argentine;Buenos Aires;Coronel Pringles;literature in translation;translated fiction;translated literature;novel;novella;lime tree;linden tree;linden tea;lime blossom tea;la recherché du temps purdue;In Search of Lost Time;Revolución Libertadora;Proust;Perón;Peronist;anti-Peronist;1955;revolution;The Seamstress and the Wind;The Little Buddhist Monk;3 Novels;Three Novels;La Prueba;The Proof;Ghosts;The Literary Conference;Musical Brain;How I Became a Nun;Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter;Bolano;Bolaño;Borges;Jorge Luis Borges;Patti Smith;Man Booker International;Manuel Rojas Prize This collection cements Joanna Walsh's reputation as one of the sharpest writers of this century. Wearing her learning lightly, Walsh's stories make us see the world afresh while showing us she has read the world. In'Like a Fish Needs a...'– perhaps the funniest, most freewheeling story ever written about cycling (and Freud and and and...) you read shenanigans worthy of Flann O'Brien. Meanwhile, in'Worlds from the Word's End', Walsh conjures up a country in which words themselves fall out of fashion – something that will never happen wherever Walsh is read. Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by Cesar Aira - suddenly recalls the Sunday mornings of his childhood, when his father would take him to gather the lime-flower blossoms from which he made tea In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author's father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Pero?nist revolution, which dashed the family's middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family's social trajectory The elegant lime trees lining the main square of Colonel Pringles bring back memories of childhood in this charming fictional memoir by Man Booker International shortlisted Cesar Aira. A colourful mosaic of a small town, The Lime Tree is a playful portrait of the artist as a child and an invitation to visit the source of Aira's imagination.