Description
| Product ID: | 9781913097875 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Paradais |
| Authors: | Author: Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction in translation, Fiction in translation |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Publisher Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-23 |