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Páradais, Fernanda Melchor

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Páradais

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Fernanda Melchor

Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequality in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, perfect pitch for orality, and neurosurgeon precision for cruelty. Páradais is a brief and inexorable descent into hell. Mariana Enríquez In a luxury residential complex, two misfit teenagers meet at night to secretly get drunk and share their crazy fantasies. Franco Andrade, obese and lonely, addicted to pornography, dreams of seducing his next door neighbor - an attractive married woman, mother of a family - for whom he has developed an unhealthy obsession; while Polo, his reluctant partner, fantasizes about giving up his crippling job as a gardener for the exclusive subdivision and fleeing his home, his drug-infested town, and the yoke of his overbearing mother. Faced with the impossibility of getting what each one believes they deserve, Franco and Polo will devise a plan as childish as it is macabre. Páradais, written by Fernanda Melchor, one of the most outstanding Mexican writers of today, explores the ease with which desire can turn into obsession and, even more, into violence, while narrating the alliance between the opposite poles of the contemporary Mexican society

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