Paradais - Fernanda Melchor , Sophie Hughes (Translation)

Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translation)

Category: Novel

Narrator: Fabiola Stevenson

Tags: Novel, General Fiction, Adults, Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023 Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022, Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise., 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