Paradais (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2022
First published:	2019
Authors:	Fernanda Melchor
Translators:	Sophie Hughes
Dimensions:	197 x 125 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-913097-87-5
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-913097-87-0
Barcode:	9781913097875

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