Paradais
Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-2022
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"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 neighbour-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-with its racist, classist, hyper violent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams"
Main title:
Paradais / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.
Author:
Melchor, Fernanda, 1982-, authorHughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2022.©2022
Collation:
124 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781922458407 (paperback)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
403246