Paradais
Author(s): Fernanda Melchor
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell- paradise. Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasises about seducing his neighbour-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener in the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Facing the impossibility of getting what they think they deserve, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.
Melchor is a thrilling writer, her electric prose charged with the power to transform the reader. Paradais explores the explosive nature of Mexico's brittle society, fractured by issues of race, class and violence-and confronts us with teenagers whose desires and hardships can tear life apart.
Product Information
Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
General Fields
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- : Text Publishing Company
- : Text Publishing Company
- : 0.198
- : 01 October 2021
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Special Fields
- : Fernanda Melchor
- : Paperback
- : 2203
- : English
- : 863.7
- : 144
- : FYT
- : Sophie Hughes