The Seamstress and the Wind is a deliciously laugh-out-loud-funny
novel. A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local
art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has
been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely
unhinged, she calls a local taxi to follow the semi in hot pursuit. When
her husband finds out what's happened, he takes off after wife and
child. They race not only to the end of the world, but to adventures in
desire -- where the wild Southern wind falls in love with the
seamstress, and a monster child takes up with the truck driver.
Interspersed are Aira's musings about memory and childhood, and his
hometown of Coronel Pringles, with a compelling view of the hard lot of
this working-class town, situated not far from Buenos Aires.