Paradais
Author: Melchor, Fernanda
ISBN: 9781922458407
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 12mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 12mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
