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wistful conversations which the poet is having with the reader and witty

and one that deserves a ‘harmonious welcome’

King's vividly remembered and often brutally detailed story makes a book whose appeal far exceeds the jazz cognescenti and is by turns funny

With shattering delicacy

Slum Virgin Benny Golson wistful conversations which the poetThe slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police officers, prostitutes, transvestites, thieves, drug dealers, cumbia music and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed to be a revelation for contemporary literature and pure dynamite (Andrs Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves, Pushkin Press). Slum Virgin tells the larger than life story of Cleopatra, a transvestite who