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 withi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes"--T. p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | 112 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780811231329 0811231321 |