Title: Shantytown
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.
Subjects: Fiction, suspense, Fiction, Argentine fiction, Translations into English, Argentine literature, Drug dealers, Police corruption, Young men, Slums, Ragpickers