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Paradais: Longlisted For the International Booker Prize 2022
[Paperback - 2022]
fernanda melchor
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions Uk | ISBN: 9781913097875 | Pages: 128
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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 gruelling 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 – fractured by issues of race, class and violence – and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.

About the Author

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



Sophie Hughes has translated novels by several contemporary Latin American and Spanish authors, including José Revueltas, Enrique Vila-Matas, Laia Jufresa and Rodrigo Hasbún. She was shortlisted for the 2019 and 2020 International Booker Prize.

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