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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Fernanda Melchor
• Assisted by: Sophie Hughes (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781913097875
• ISBN: 978-1-913097-87-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature