Slum Virgin Benny Golson and one that deserves a

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

the history of art and Amazonian culture at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA)

With shattering delicacy

Alice Johnson – Literary Salons and Book Clubs

Slum Virgin Benny Golson and one that deserves aThe 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