Paradais
  • Published:
    Mar-2022
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
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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 apart at the seams.
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    • First Edition
    • Mar-2022
    • Fitzcarraldo Editions
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1913097870
    • ISBN13: 9781913097875
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    • Apr-2023
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 081123505X
    • ISBN13: 9780811235051
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    • Mar-2022
    • Fitzcarraldo Editions
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1913097889
    • ISBN13: 9781913097882
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    • May-2022
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 081123133X
    • ISBN13: 9780811231336
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    • May-2022
    • New Directions
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • May-2022
    • Text Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1922459712
    • ISBN13: 9781922459718



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