Details

ISBN-10: 081123505X
ISBN-13: 9780811235051
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/04/2023
Dimensions: 7.97" L, 5.47" W, 0.32" H

Paradais

Translator: Sophie Hughes

Paperback

Price: $15.95

Overview

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, hyper violent tendencies–and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

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Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, a perfect pitch for orality, and a neurosurgeon's precision for cruelty. Paradais is a short inexorable descent into Hell.–Mariana Enriquez
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Details

ISBN-10: 081123505X
ISBN-13: 9780811235051
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 04/04/2023
Dimensions: 7.97" L, 5.47" W, 0.32" H
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