Shantytown
By: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews
Contributors: Andrews, Chris, 1962- translator
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780811219112
Work titles: Villa
Description: 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 policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes is operating in the slum. By the author of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
Notes: "Originally published in Spanish as La Villa by Emecã Editores S.A., Argentina in 2001; published in conjunction with the literary Agency Michael Gaeb/Berlin"--Title page verso.

"NDP 1268"--Spine.

"A New Directions Paperbook Original."