Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022
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.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781913097875Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess,a perfect pitch for orality,and a neurosurgeon's precision for cruelty. Paradais is a short inexorable descent into Hell.'- Mariana Enriquez,author of Things We Lost in the Fire
'Melchor evokes the stories of Flannery O'Connor,or,more recently,Marlon James's A Brief History of Seven Killings. Impressive.'- Julian Lucas,New York Times
'Fernanda Melchor has a powerful voice,and by powerful I mean unsparing,devastating,the voice of someone who writes with rage,and has the skill to pull it off.'- Samanta Schweblin,author of Fever Dream
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