Shantytown

by César Aira

Book Overview

Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone -- including two innocent teenage girls -- to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811219119
• ISBN13: 9780811219112
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.1"