Paradais - Couverture rigide

Melchor, Fernanda

 
9780811231329: Paradais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0811231321 ISBN 13 : 9780811231329
Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is "one of Mexico's most exciting new voices" (The Guardian). Her novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.

Sophie Hughes has also translated José Revueltas and Enrique Vila-Matas for New Directions. She was shortlisted for the 2019 and 2020 International Booker Prize.

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Éditeur
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0811231321
ISBN 13 
9780811231329
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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