PARADISES by Beth Fowler, Iosi Havilio ( 9781908276247 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

PARADISES

By:

Beth Fowler, Iosi Havilio

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

190827624X

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9781908276247

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Pub. date:

1 October, 2013

Pages:

300

Description:

A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires.

Synopsis:

-In contemporary Argentine literature, Paradises is an almost perfect novel.---TonicaAlbert Camus's The Outsider reimagined with a female lead in in twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.Recently widowed, a young woman leaves the countryside for Buenos Aires with her four-year-old son where she seeks to build a new life for herself. She finds work in the zoo and moves into the human zoo of a squatted tower block at the invitation of one of its residents, to whom she acts as nurse, giving morphine injections.Iosi Havilio's captivating voice has brought him cult status in Argentina.

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