| Description |
112 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Teenagers -- Fiction.
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Families -- Mexico -- Fiction.
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Violence -- Mexico -- Fiction.
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Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator.
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| Added Title |
Paradais. English.
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| ISBN |
9780811231329 (cloth) |
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