Fernanda Melchor 
Paradais [EPUB ebook] 

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.

A propos de l’auteur

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.