Paradais

Author(s): Fernanda Melchor

General Fiction

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.

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Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.

General Fields

  • : 9781922458407
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.198
  • : October 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FYT
  • : 144
  • : 863.7
  • : English
  • : 2203
  • : Paperback
  • : Fernanda Melchor
  • : Sophie Hughes