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 that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira's fascination with urbanviolence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics" ( The Millions ), Shantytown, like all of Aira's mesmerizing work, is filled with wonder and mad invention. " | Shantytown by Cesar Aira, Paperback | Indigo Chapters