Book 2013

Shantytown

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Language: English
Published: 2013

Fiction, suspense
Fiction
Argentine fiction
Translations into English
Argentine literature
Drug dealers
Police corruption
Young men

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.