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Pradais / Paradise (Spanish Edition),Used
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Nominada para el Man Booker Internacional 2022Fernanda Melchor explora la violencia y la desigualdad en esta novela brutal. Lo hace con una destreza tcnica deslumbrante, odo absoluto para la oralidad y precisin de neurocirujana para la crueldad. Pradais es un breve e inexorable descenso al infierno. Mariana EnrquezEn un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se renen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasas. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografa, suea con seducir a la vecina de al lado una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesin malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compaero, fantasea con renunciar a su agobiante empleo como jardinero del exclusivo fraccionamiento y huir de su casa, de su pueblo infestado de narcos, y del yugo de su dominante madre. Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir lo que cada uno cree merecer, Franco y Polo maquinarn un plan tan pueril como macabro.Pradais, escrita por Fernanda Melchor, una de las escritoras mexicanas ms destacadas de la actualidad, explora la facilidad con la que el deseo puede convertirse en obsesin y, ms an, en violencia, al tiempo que narra la alianza entre los polos opuestos de la sociedad mexicana contempornea.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONLonglisted for the 2022 International Man Booker PrizeFernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, a perfect pitch for orality, and a neurosurgeons precision for cruelty. Paradais is a short inexorable descent into Hell. Mariana EnrquezIn a luxurious residential complex, two outcast teenagers sneak at night to get drunk and share their outrageous fantasies. Franco Andrade, a fat and lonely porn addict, dreams of seducing his nextdoor neighbor, an attractive wife and mother for whom he has developed an unwholesome obsession. Polo, his reluctant sidekick, fantasizes about quitting his backbreaking job as a gardener in this exclusive complex and running away from home, leaving their narcoinfested town and his overbearing mothers grip behind. Faced with the impossibility of getting what they both believe they deserve; Franco and Polo will come up with a plan that is every bit as childish as it is macabre.Written by Fernanda Melchor, one of the most outstanding Mexican writers of today, Paradais explores how easily desire can turn into obsession, and then further into violence, all the while describing the alliance between opposite sides of contemporary Mexican society.
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