Paradises

Paradises

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<div><p>"In contemporary Argentine literature, <I>Paradises</I> is an almost perfect novel."—<I>Tonica</I></p><p>Albert Camus's <I>The Outsider</I> reimagined with a female lead in in twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.</p><p>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.</p><p><B>Iosi Havilio</B>'s captivating voice has brought him cult status in Argentina.</p><BR></div>