Paradais - Fernanda Melchor , Sophie Hughes (Translation) torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Contemporary Dark Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Literature Novella Novels Spanish Literature

Written by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translation)
Read by Fabiola Stevenson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2023
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022

Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise.

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.

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
Release date: 2022-04-26