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?