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A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemón, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his court-which is itself contained in a demonic gemstone the size of a fist. And deep in the Andes, in a hidden cave, an unremarkable house cat waits to trap its hapless victim with a Gorgon's gaze and engage him in a staring contest on which th...

In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is executed for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex, an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion, and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself-and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of YESTERDAY, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions...

Over the course of a single day - the day before today - the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man.