Name: Paradais
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Author: Fernanda Melchor
ISBN: 9780811235051

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernanda Melchor

Translated by

Sophie Hughes

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811235051

Synopsis "Paradais"

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.

Fernanda Melchor

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Fernanda Melchor nació en el puerto de Veracruz, en México. Es autora del libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami (2018) y de las novelas Falsa liebre (2013; 2022), Páradais (2021) y Temporada de huracanes (2017), esta última traducida a más de treinta idiomas y finalista del prestigioso premio Booker International en 2020. Todos ellos publicados por Random House. Su trabajo ha merecido diversos reconocimientos nacionales e internacionales, como el Premio Anna Seghers 2019, el Premio Internacional de Literatura de Alemania y el Premio PEN a la Excelencia Literaria 2018.

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