Cover image for Paradais / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.
Title:
Paradais / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.
ISBN:
9780811231329
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : New Directions Publishing, [2022]
Physical Description:
112 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published in Barcelona, Spain, by Literatura Random House, 2021, under title Páradais.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language Note:
In English, translated from the Spanish.
OCLC Number:
on1268545384
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