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Author:

Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- author.

Title:

Paradais / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

A New Directions Book,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

112 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Teenagers--Fiction.
Families--Mexico--Fiction.
Violence--Mexico--Fiction.
Mexico--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)

Other Authors:

Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator.

Other Titles:

Paradais. English

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0811231321
9780811231329

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1313397597

LCCN:

2021046083

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)