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.
| ISBN: | 9781913097875 |
| Publication date: | 23rd March 2022 |
| Author: | Fernanda Melchor |
| Publisher: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Translated Fiction |