Paradais

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight,...
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Author: Fernanda Melchor
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Language: English
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Paradais by Melchor, Fernanda

Paradais

$41.43

Paradais

$41.43
Author: Fernanda Melchor
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 grueling 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, hyperviolent tendencies--and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.



Author: Fernanda Melchor
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.77w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780811231329


Award: Man Booker International Prize - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 03/07/2022

About the Author
Melchor, Fernanda: - Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is "one of Mexico's most exciting new voices" (The Guardian). Her novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.Hughes, Sophie: - Sophie Hughes has also translated José Revueltas and Enrique Vila-Matas for New Directions. She was shortlisted for the 2019 and 2020 International Booker Prize.

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