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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Paradais
Author: MELCHOR FERNANDA
Illustrator: HUGHES SOPHIE (TR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2022
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell- paradise
Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasises about seducing his neighbour-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener in the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Facing the impossibility of getting what they think they deserve, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.
Melchor is a thrilling writer, her electric prose charged with the power to transform the reader. Paradais explores the explosive nature of Mexico’s brittle society, fractured by issues of race, class and violence-and confronts us with teenagers whose desires and hardships can tear life apart.
ISBN: 9781922458407
Pages: 120