{"product_id":"paradais","title":"Paradais","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAuthor of the acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eHurricane Season\u003c\/i\u003e, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasises about seducing his neighbour-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener in the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Facing the impossibility of getting what they think they deserve, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelchor is a thrilling writer, her electric prose charged with the power to transform the reader. \u003ci\u003eParadais\u003c\/i\u003e explores the explosive nature of Mexico's brittle society, fractured by issues of race, class and violence-and confronts us with teenagers whose desires and hardships can tear life apart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, a perfect pitch for orality, and a neurosurgeon's precision for cruelty. \u003ci\u003eParadais\u003c\/i\u003e is a short inexorable descent into Hell.' \u003cb\u003eMariana Enriquez\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'The 'elemental cry' of Ms. Melchor's writing voice, a composite of anger and anguish, is entirely her own.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Melchor evokes the stories of Flannery O'Connor, or Marlon James' \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/i\u003e. Impressive.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Fernanda Melchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516747972669,"sku":null,"price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922458407.jpg?v=1787571870","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/paradais","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}