Ghosts

Cesar Aira. The novel revolves around an immigrant worker's family squatting on the haunted construction site of a luxury condominum building. All of the workmen and their wives and children see the ghosts, who literally hang around the place, but one teenage girl becomes the most curious. Her questions about the ghosts get so intense that her mother - in a chilling split-second - realizes her daughter's life hangs in the balance.139p.