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Paradais

ISBN: 9780811231329
ISBN: 0811231321
ISBN: 9780811231336
Physical Description: print 112 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.

Melchor, Fernanda 1982- (author.). Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- (translator.).

Summary: "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"--