Aicuña Is Not an Albino Town From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: ± Daneri, Toà o Angulo | Copyright University of Virginia Fall 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Every so often someone shows up in Aicuña asking about "the mysterious albino town." The curious or nosy make a twenty-hour bus ride from Buenos Aires to the almost secret hamlet in La Rioja Province of Argentina.

It's Monday morning, and someone has just arrived.

The photographer Paola de Grenet and I are having breakfast at La Casa guesthouse-the only accommodation that exists in Aicuña-when a taxi parks in front of the yard. A man in his thirties emerges, with neatly parted...

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