Name: Paradais
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Author: Melchor, Fernanda ; Hughes, Sophie
ISBN: 9780811231329

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernanda Melchor

Translated by

Sophie Hughes

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

128

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.7 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780811231329

Synopsis "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 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.

Fernanda Melchor

(Author)

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Fernanda Melchor (Boca del Río, June 3, 1982) is a Mexican writer and translator internationally known for her novel Hurricane Season. With a hardened writing style, she perfectly portrays the violence and its consequences on the lives of Mexico's inhabitants. This has been translated into more than thirty languages and was a finalist for the prestigious Booker International Prize in 2020

She is also the author of the chronicle book This is Not Miami (2018) and the novels False Hare (2013; 2022), Páradais (2021). All published by Random House. Her work has earned various national and international awards, such as the Anna Seghers Prize 2019, the International Literature Prize of Germany, and the PEN Award for Literary Excellence 2018.

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