Paradais
Fernanda Melchor
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Wagenbach
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9789997653307
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Class and social inequalityToxic masculinity and obsessionViolence in Mexican society
Awards
- International Dublin Literary AwardShortlistedMajor(2023)
- International Booker PrizeLonglistedMajor(2022)
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