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Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

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#948 of 8,085 books · #235 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2023) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2022). Also longlisted for 1 other award.

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. 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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Publisher
Wagenbach
ISBN-13
9789997653307
Topics
Class and social inequalityToxic masculinity and obsessionViolence in Mexican society

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