A delightful fictional memoir about C?sar Aira's small hometown. The narrator, born the same year and now living in the same great city (Buenos Aires) as C?sar Aira, could be the author himself. Beginning with his parents--an enigmatic handsome black father who gathered linden flowers for his sleep-inducing tea and an irrational, crippled mother of European descent--the narrator catalogs memories of his childhood: his friends, his peculiar first...