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|title=Seven Ways to Kill a Cat

|author=Matias Nespolo

|reviewer=Ed Prior

|publisher=Vintage Books

|date=November 2012

|website=http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/authors/matias-nespolo

|summary=A fast-paced debut novel with strong characters that paints an unflinching, if two-dimensional portrait of life in a Buenos Aires slum. Sadly let down by a plot that peters out towards the end, ''Seven Ways to Kill a Cat'' fails to live up to its early promise, though it's such a brisk, easy read that you barely have time to be disappointed before it's over.

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The Argentinian economy is in meltdown and the streets of Buenos Aires are awash with protestors, but this means little to those struggling to survive in the shanty towns clinging to the city's edge. In the ''barrio'' every day is hard and the choices you make really do mean the difference between life and death. Gringo, a youth on the verge of becoming a man and Chueco, his unreliable friend, both short on options, are drawn to the local gang culture and the seemingly easy money it offers. But, with a turf war brewing, can either of them survive the coming storm?

[[No-one Loves a Policeman by Guillermo Orsi]]

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