Shantytown
Shantytown
latin america
Shantytown is a novel by CĂ©sar Aira originally released in Spanish under the title La Villa in 2001. Chris Andrewsâ English translation was published by New Directions Publishing in 2013. The book takes place in the Bajo Flores neighborhood, a shantytown in Buenos Aires, and focuses on various characters and how they intersect. Maxi is a middle-class adolescent who doesn't work or go to school, has an imposing physique, does little other than go to the gym, and has night blindness. To stave off boredom, he immerses himself in helping scavengers collect cardboard for change, gaining their confidence, and wandering through the slums, filled with wonder at what he experiences. He is the only one who sees the invisible cardboard scavengers.â Wikipedia
