MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01429cam a2200325 i 4500
001 2013027464
003 DLC
005 20150530080811.0
008 130809s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013027464
020 $a9780811221580 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780811219112
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hspa
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPQ7798.1.I7$bV5513 2013
082 00 $a863/.64$223
100 1 $aAira, César,$d1949-
240 10 $aVilla.$lEnglish
245 10 $aShantytown /$cCésar Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew Directions Publishing Corporation,$c[2013].
300 $a162 pages ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
546 $a"Originally published in Spanish as La Villa by Emecã Editores S.A., Argentina in 2001; published in conjunction with the literary Agency Michael Gaeb/Berlin."
500 $a"A New Directions Paperbook Original."
500 $aTranslated from the Spanish.
520 $aA middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes is operating in the slum. By the author of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
700 1 $aAndrews, Chris,$d1962-$etranslator.