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Slum virgin / Gabriela Cabez©Øon C©Øamara ; translated by Frances Riddle.

Cabez©Øon C©Øamara, Gabriela, 1968- (author.). Riddle, Frances, (translator.).

Summary:

Buenos Aires. Cleopatra, a transvestite, renounces prostitution after the Virgin Mary appears before her. Following the divine messages she receives, Cleo takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia. Ambitious journalist Quity knows she has found the story of the year when she hears about it, but her life is changed forever once she steps into the shantytown and finds herself irrevocably seduced by the captivating subject of her article. -- adapted from info provided

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  • ISBN: 9781999722708
  • ISBN: 1999722701
  • Physical Description: v, 147 pages ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2017.

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Language Note:
In English, translated from the Spanish.

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Genre: Fiction.

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