Paradises
By: Iosi Havilio ; translated by Beth Fowler ; introduced by Alex Clark
Contributors: Fowler, Beth; Clark, Alex
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781908276247
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Women; Zoos; Conduct of life; Employees; Widows; Single mothers; Fiction
Work titles: Paraísos
Description: "Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents, to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections"--Amazon.com, viewed November 25, 2013.
Notes: Translation of: Paraísos.