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Shantytown

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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 Aira's "fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics" , Shantytown, like all of Aira's mesmerizing work, is filled with wonder and mad invention.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: November 20, 2013

ISBN: 0811219119

ISBN 13: 9780811219112

Shantytown

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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 Aira's "fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics" , Shantytown, like all of Aira's mesmerizing work, is filled with wonder and mad invention.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: November 20, 2013

ISBN: 0811219119

ISBN 13: 9780811219112

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