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, hyper violent tendencies-and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams.
Biografie (Fernanda Melchor)
Fernanda Melchor, 1982 im mexikanischen Bundesstaat Veracruz geboren, schreibt Romane und Reportagen. Sie lebt in Puebla und gilt als die talentierteste Autorin ihrer Generation. Ihr zweiter Roman »Saison der Wirbelstürme« erschien gleichzeitig in mehreren Ländern, unter anderem in den USA, Frankreich und Großbritannien. Internationaler Literaturpreis 2019.
