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Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
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Original title | La trama celeste |
Country | Argentina |
Genre | Collection of short stories |
The Celestial Plot (Spanish : La trama celeste) is a book by Adolfo Bioy Casares. It is a collection of short stories and includes a work with the same name.
A soldier must pilot a new plane. He suffers an accident and is injured. He is interrogated and the army does not believe he is from Argentina. They mistake him for a spy. He calls his friends and nobody recognizes him. He cannot explain the situation, but a friend of his, the author, helps him. The author discovers the truth: the soldier has travelled to a parallel universe, a little different from this one.
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