Paradais
Book - 2022 Adult Book / Fiction / General / Melchor, Fernanda None on shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
| Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult Book / Fiction / General / Melchor, Fernanda | 4-week checkout | Due 05-07-2024 |
"Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes" -- verso.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Publishers Weekly ReviewSummary / Annotation
Author Notes
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 112 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780811231329
0811231321
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hughes, Sophie 1986-
SUBJECTS
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Neighbors -- Fiction.
Wishes -- Fiction.
Violence -- Fiction.
Equality -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)