Paradais
"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 withi...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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 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-with its racist, classist, hyperviolent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes" -- verso. |
| Physical Description: | 112 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780811231329 0811231321 |
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