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Paradais
New Directions
ISBN13:
9780811231329
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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 (and general doormat) within the gated community, and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each faced with 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 the most thrilling and critically-acclaimed contemporary writers,Paradise explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society--with its racist, classist, hyper-violent tendancies--and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
- | Author: Fernanda Melchor
- | Publisher: New Directions
- | Publication Date: May 10, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 128 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
- | ISBN-10: 0811231321
- | ISBN-13: 9780811231329
- Author:
- Fernanda Melchor
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Publication Date:
- May 10, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 128 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover/Fiction
- ISBN-10:
- 0811231321
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811231329