Shantytown

César Aira

NEW DIRECTIONS

Shantytown

César Aira
FictionNDP1268First published 2013

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 t...

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Shantytown

César Aira

NEW DIRECTIONS