| Paradais Contributor(s): Melchor, Fernanda (Author), Hughes, Sophie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811231321 ISBN-13: 9780811231329 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime - Fiction | Noir |
| Dewey: 863.7 |
| LCCN: 2021046083 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.77" W x 8.31" (0.57 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 (and general doormat) within the gated community, and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each faced with 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 the most thrilling and critically-acclaimed contemporary writers, Paradise explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society--with its racist, classist, hyper-violent tendancies--and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams. |