Scum'Whatever region his writing inhabits, it is blazing with life and actuality' Ted Hughes, New York Review of Books It is 1906. The death of his seventeen year old son, Arturo, has disrupted the life of Max Barabander in Buenos Aires, sending him back to his roots in Warsaw. Having attained wealth and respectability after a youth of poverty and a prison stretch for theft, Max revisits scenes of the past in the thieves' quarter in Warsaw finding