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Paradises
Beth Fowler
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Description for Paradises
Paperback. A young mother learns to survive among the snakes, sleaze, and slums of Buenos Aires. Translator(s): Fowler, Beth. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 200 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus’ Outsider – but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of death and chance encounters to lead her through the city, where she sleepwalks into a job in the zoo’s reptile house, and another administering morphine to one of the oddball residents of the squat that she and her young son move into. Is this life in the shadows, an underworld of cut-price Christmases, drugs and dealers, or is this simply life? And why do snakes seem to be invading every aspect of it?
Paradises might be a reimagining of Camus’ Outsider – but in female form and living in 21st-century Buenos Aires. Our narrator allows the hazards of death and chance encounters to lead her through the city, where she sleepwalks into a job in the zoo’s reptile house, and another administering morphine to one of the oddball residents of the squat that she and her young son move into. Is this life in the shadows, an underworld of cut-price Christmases, drugs and dealers, or is this simply life? And why do snakes seem to be invading every aspect of it?
Product Details
Publisher
And Other Stories
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276247
SKU
V9781908276247
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99-15
About Beth Fowler
Born in Buenos Aires in 1974, Iosi Havilio is creating waves in and beyond Argentina. His work has been praised by top Argentine writers and critics including Rodolfo Fogwill and Beatriz Sarlo. Open Door, Havilio’s first novel, has been translated into English and Italian. His second novel is Estocolmo (Stockholm) and his third is Paradises. All three are now published ... Read more
Reviews for Paradises
'Iosi Havilio has caused a literary storm in Argentina. - His creation is of an inverted "paradise", urban squalor a pole apart from the gardens of Paradise. It well reflects the inequalities and iniquities left by Argentina's financial collapse at the turn of this century. This is the aftermath of an apocalypse.' Amanda Hopkins, The Independent
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