Paradais

Melchor, Fernanda

ISBN 10: 1913097870 / ISBN 13: 9781913097875

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Paradais
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913097870
• ISBN 13: 9781913097875
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society – fractured by issues of race, class and violence – and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.