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Author / Creator:	Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- author.
Uniform title:	Paradais. English
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
Description:	112 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. Neighbors -- Fiction. Wishes -- Fiction. Violence -- Fiction. Equality -- Fiction. Life change events -- Fiction. Novels. Thrillers (Fiction) Thrillers (Fiction) Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12773048

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Other authors / contributors:	Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator.
ISBN:	9780811231329 0811231321 9780811231336
Notes:	"Copyright © 2021 Fernanda Melchor. English translation copyright © 2022 Sophie Hughes" -- verso.
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"--

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