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Shantytown / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
- Title
- Shantytown / César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
- Author
- Aira, César, 1949-
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ7798.1.I7 V5513 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 162 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1268
- Uniform Title
- Villa. English
- New Directions paperbook 1268.
- Alternative Title
- Villa.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Translations
- Note
- "A New Directions Paperbook Original."
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Language (note)
- "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.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0811219119 (paperback)
- 9780811219112 (paperback)
- 9780811221580 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 081122158X (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013027464
- OCLC
- 829988854
- SCSB-12267751
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library